On Saturday evening James, Alasdair and I decided to watch a film. After some deliberation, I chose A Monster Calls; I read the book with a 4th Year English class and thought it was excellent. As I blogged on 7th March this year, the original idea for the book was by Siobhan Dowd, who unfortunately died of breast cancer before she could write it. Patrick Ness (who wrote the Chaos Walking trilogy that David and I have both enjoyed) stepped in to write the story, and it has now come out as a film, starring Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Liam Neeson and a child actor Lewis MacDougall who was truly amazing.
The film was true to the book and I loved it. It was very moving and did not flinch from its difficult subject matter.
However James and Ally were not quite so impressed, perhaps because they didn't know what to expect, and words like "drear" and "depressing" were used! Never mind, I enjoyed it and perhaps they will come to view it more kindly when they reflect on it. By the way, at the end of the film during the credits there was a really good song by Keane called "Tear up this town" which I liked so much that I downloaded it later and played it lots on the way to Dundee on Sunday.
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