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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 279744" data-attributes="member: 22">The Children Act (2017)[ATTACH=full]28376[/ATTACH]Fascinating but oddly unbalanced film starring Emma Thompson as a judge whose responsibilities entail making impossibly difficult rulings in legal cases involving kids. Her work consumes her at the expense of her marriage to Stanley Tucci. It&#039;s very interesting to see legal procedures depicted from a judge&#039;s point of view and I could kind of imagine this as a slick three-part series on the BBC, until about halfway through when it takes an abrupt turn into old-fashioned melodrama territory, whereupon I started to visualise it as a black and white Barbara Stanwyck movie from the &#039;40s.There are some beautifully moving scenes, but by the end I couldn&#039;t shake the feeling that the whole thing -- the story, the characters, their suffering -- ultimately existed as a vehicle for Emma Thompson to do her thing.&nbsp; In other words, it felt like the film was serving her rather than the other way round. But, you know, there are definitely worse ways to spend 98 minutes than watching ET give a predictably faultless performance.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000p3l4/the-children-act[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 279744, member: 22"] [I][U]The Children Act (2017)[/U][/I] [ATTACH type="full" alt="MV5BODUwOTk1MzI3NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTI4NDE3NTM@._V1_.jpg"]28376[/ATTACH] Fascinating but oddly unbalanced film starring Emma Thompson as a judge whose responsibilities entail making impossibly difficult rulings in legal cases involving kids. Her work consumes her at the expense of her marriage to Stanley Tucci. It's very interesting to see legal procedures depicted from a judge's point of view and I could kind of imagine this as a slick three-part series on the BBC, until about halfway through when it takes an abrupt turn into old-fashioned melodrama territory, whereupon I started to visualise it as a black and white Barbara Stanwyck movie from the '40s. There are some beautifully moving scenes, but by the end I couldn't shake the feeling that the whole thing -- the story, the characters, their suffering -- ultimately existed as a vehicle for Emma Thompson to do her thing. In other words, it felt like the film was serving [I]her[/I] rather than the other way round. But, you know, there are definitely worse ways to spend 98 minutes than watching ET give a predictably faultless performance. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000p3l4/the-children-act[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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