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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
Some of the little things were immensely pleasing. I like the way they did not play soft music when news came that Reggie had been killed. The wireless was blazing away some jazz band, and it all came so naturally, not like it generally does in the films.
'Gran'ma' was typical too, so pessimistic and I loved it when Reggie's carriage was late, on his wedding day, and to cheer him up, she told him, how she knew someone who had been struck by lightening and that there was sure to be an accident. One of the most human things was however, when she found the cat, sitting on her feather boa.
Aunt Silvia thought she had a voice and it was comical to see the way father went into the kitchen, swiftly followed by mother, when she started to sing.
It was not at all funny, however, the skilful combination of humour, sadness and every day life made it unusual and very good, in fact thoroughly enjoyable.
9-J-W.
One of my favourite films is The Way Ahead. I liked it not only for the story of the film but also for the way that it paid tribute to our gallant soldiers, the orderliness and bravery of them, their thought for others and how they made themselves used to the army disciplin.
Other points that I particularly noticed were that the soldiers in civilian life had very different occupations, one was a stocker in the House of Parliament, another a manager of a big London store who spoke very grandly, two other young men were only troubling about their own comforts, one of these young men was a corporal at the end of the film. I enjoyed watching the men in battle training, but I think when the men were shown crossing a river by swinging themselves along by a rope and one of the men fell off, it made the public laugh which I think altogether wrong as it seemed to ridicule the army in the eyes of the public.
I thought that the men being shown at home on leave was very lovely especially of the lieutenant of the company (who was David Niven) who was shown at home with his wife and little daughter fishing in the river, it was very sad when they all said 'goodbye' to their wives on the platforms before they knew that they were going abroad to French Morocco.
It was very tragic when they were hit by depth charges the men were so upset because they had to return to the Rock of Gibraltar,
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