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Downton Abbey: Episode #5.5 (2014)
Unbelievable Bunting
I'm afraid to say that the whole Sarah Bunting storyline has struck me as being unrealistic right from the beginning.
In my opinion, school teachers of the period would have been very much in awe of the local gentry. Lord Grantham would more than likely have been on the board of governors of the school where she taught, in all likelyhood the chairman. Is it also not the case that he owned the village where she lived? So, as a probable tennant, she would have risked being thrown out of her job and her home for what, even by today's standards, would be deemed as unacceptable behaviour.
I also think it highly unlikely that a school teacher would ever be invited to a social function at such a house - even in the 1920's. The headmaster and church rector (not vicar) maybe, but not a teacher. Even if she was Tom Branson's "squeeze".
Tom Branson, another credibility stretcher........
Twin Town (1997)
Standing ovation
During my tenure as chief projectionist of the Commodore Cinema, Aberystwyth, the only film to have received a standing ovation on more than one night for a week's screening. It's a university town so we have a good mix of local punters, students and holiday people. I rest my case.
The nineties was, on the whole, a good decade for cinema I think. All we seem to have had since then is a load of cgi filled soulless film equivalent of a fast food outlet (Hancock?). Maybe it's just me getting older.
I checked out the "hated it" rating for Twin Town tonight, and was pleasantly surprised to see only two negative reviews receiving two stars or less.
Bloody hell. Some bugger's just nicked my car..............