“Birdsong“ by Sebastian Faulks has recently made the transition from critically-lauded book to lavish BBC production. Almost assured of success due to its literary fanbase Derrick White Jersey , the Guardian reported that over 6 million tuned in for the first of three episodes on Sunday evening. I can only assume that many shared my incomprehension at the direction and wondered as to who would be inspired to go on and read the actual novel after watching the turgid drivel that soiled the screen for well over an hour.
I have read the book. To be honest, I didn’t think I would enjoy it when I started, but ended up quite gripped by the story and found it thoroughly enjoyable. I had worried that it would be one of those dreadfully twee cases of romanticising World War One, or swinging in the other direction entirely and serving up a grim nihilist attrition-based novel like “All Quiet On The Western Front“ without the dreadful humour. Instead Kyle Anderson Jersey , Faulks went into a good deal of detail concerning the “diggers“, whose perilous job it was to mine into the German trenches whilst avoid the Germans attempting to do the same to the Allies. It was a dangerous, claustrophobic and thankless task that largely fell to volunteers and conscript from working-class mining villages. The overall impression matched survivor accounts from WW1 Quite closely: long periods of tedium and privation interspersed with brief moments of grinding horror.
At no point do I remember though, chief characters in the novel gazing off into the middle distance with an unfocussed slack-jawed expression as if someone had just upped the mogadon shunt on an IV line. I don’t recall flipping through dozens of empty pages as the two characters forming the main love interest sit and fret and contemplate the duties and restraints of social conventions.
Of course Tony Parker Jersey , I get it if an uncomfortable silence needs to be shown on film. I understand that the silence carries the weight of everything Stephen and Isabelle cannot say to eachother, but after one or two such instances - the point is well and truly made. Unfortunately, the director needs to ram home the issue by ensuring that each and every meeting between the characters is so heavily fraught and pregnant with silence and misdirected looks that even Harold Pinter would be whispering “line!“ in the wings. The result is bloating the script out by at least twenty minutes when the principals do nothing but shuffle around and gaze about watery-eyed as if they’re on their first acid trip.
Perhaps it’s a result of the grand public dumbing-down. Film theatres are being hit at the box office by punters demanding refunds for The Artist as there’s no dialogue . . . yes, people are actually disappointed that a silent film has no dialogue. Given that Hollywood regularly re-makes any successful foreign film so that an audience doesn’t have to indulge in the tiresome task of reading subtitles George Gervin Jersey , I shouldn’t be surprised. I’m sure the next historical epic that deals with the slaughterhouse of the Somme or Ypres will be in full 3D with some X-box tie in, so that you can fully appreciate the horror of mechanised warfare by getting to level fourteen.
So maybe it’s us to blame that Birdsong’s director had to hammer home each and every cinematic convention, because the sad experience is that audiences don’t pick up on subtlety. Which, if true Bruce Bowen Jersey , makes Birdsong an odd choice for dramatisation as it’s not the usual gung-ho storyline that would appeal to the attention-deficit-generation.
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