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So much to like about this marvelous film.


One scene that has really stuck with me, Eddie Marsan is in the house or flat of the man in his last case, there is a small stack of books in place of a broken chair leg, when he gets to the daughters house there is also a stack of books under a broken chair. He does not say anything but just looks at it. Wonderful.

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Oh, I didn't catch that, but I now can see it.

Very poignant movie—we can make a difference if we wish to.

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>> Very poignant movie—we can make a difference if we wish to.

AND we have an movie audience following us around.

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Yes - a nice touch. Like father; like daughter, in dealing with broken chair legs - lovely. And then he smiles at the dog, as if he thinks the dog is judging him!


"Look at it this way; in a hundred years who's gonna care?"

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Also a deep meditation on broken lives. Few things as symbolic as a broken chair that somehow has not been rubbished. Compare it to the solid, confident way the solid, confident blind man is seated in his room when May visits him.

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On the subject of Jumbo the blind man how did he know what John Eddie Marsan
liked to eat for lunch? Tinned tuna and toast.

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He didn't. It was simply a way to show the likeness between two lonely single men.

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