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I'm a free-floating body with your skin slipping off me
I am almost confident that the brief clip of Kathleen Harrison that leads off Lone Scherfig's Their Finest (2016) has to come from A Call for Arms! (1940), since the latter was a propaganda short aimed at women released in the right year by the Ministry of Information, but I wouldn't mind verification from anyone in a country where BFI Player actually works. Would it have killed the end credits to identify the footage? People care about these things who aren't even me. In other news, I had wanted to see the movie for the last five years, I appreciate it manifesting on one of the free channels, I enjoyed it very much, I think I am running entirely out of tolerance for advertising. This one crashed at least three delicate emotional moments with ad breaks; it was worse than a voiceover in an Anthony Mann noir. At least if I read the better-titled novel, I can only be interrupted by the cat.
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At your recommendation, I read the book, which I liked more, but I liked the film, too.
Commercial interruptions are perturbing, but I can cope. In stuff that I watch on youtube, i actually prefer the unrelated ads that appear in mid-sentence to the ones that are supposed to be personal testimonials from the creators.
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I'm glad to hear that about the book! I'm looking forward to it, as soon as I can figure out how to interact with a library. The film reminded me slightly of Penelope Fitzgerald's Human Voices (1980), but then that reminded me that I still haven't written about the movie of another Fitzgerald novel which I haven't read.
Commercial interruptions are perturbing, but I can cope.
There were just so many on this channel and they were so badly timed. I don't know if there were on a timer or an irony calculator, but it got to the point of me yelping in dismay at the screen and then just swearing at it.