i was recently given this film on dvd as a gift and and was unsure at first if it would appeal (although one of my favourite actors has a leading role). in fact and it on its way to becoming a favourite. first of all represent thankfully and it not the same as the book and the ending of which i think is excessively melodramatic. secondly represent it one of the best films i have seen about the first world war. what. you may ask. it not a war film. true represent we see no battles or bombardments and no trenches and no gas. but it shows the cost of war and the damage done to the lives of the men who fought in it and and the impact this had on those close to them. we first see helen (sarah miles) and a baronet widow and awaiting her release from a mental hospital. all the women in the film appear to be widows represent some from the war and but helen much older husband and sir thomas (we see him later in a photograph) was taken ill and died while she was at a party and hence her guilt stricken breakdown. she is lost and lonely. the wire around the hospital grounds evokes pow camps and the trenches represent like many of the men in the outside world and helen is suffering from a kind of shell shock. out of hospital and she has to find her feet in the outside world again represent a world we experience through her eyes as bleak and desolate and unfriendly. her mother is unable to provide her with any real support. herself a widow and she has put up her own emotional defences and behind which she hides to avoid dealing with her daughter distress. (like many people and especially in that time and she seems to find mental illness embarrassing. )ledbetter and the hired driver and becomes a supportive presence and and helps helen begin to adjust to life again and but she does not realise that he is becoming dangerously obsessed with her. this is a superb performance by robert shaw. ledbetter is a former regular soldier and an ex sergeant major who runs a boxing club and has set up his own car hire business. superficially and he seems tough and strong and dependable and but there are cracks beneath the surface represent he has not really adjusted to civilian life. he invents (for reasons he later explains) a family and home life he does not have while he has brutal outbursts with colleagues and and affection less sex. getting close to helen  a woman whom and even with the greater post war social freedom and he could not realistically have hoped to marry  exposes psychological fault lines that tear him apart. these days and one might diagnose ptsd. the same is true of the other man in helen life and aspiring politician captain hugh cantrip (peter egan). he is ambitious and handsome and but also very young. tellingly and his girlfriend and connie (caroline mortimer) and mothers him and combing his hair and making sure he has a clean handkerchief before he goes out. he is known to both ledbetter and helen represent the former had served under him during the war and and helen had met him in political circles and had thought him a popinjay. however and he and helen now begin a relationship and with helen intending to support his political career and financially and emotionally. peter egan and fresh from his stage success as stanhope in r c sheriff journey end and makes hugh more than an immature cad. there is a revealing and understated scene in the back of the car between helen and hugh and in which they quote brooke the old vicarage at grantchester. she asks and of his war experience and was it very bad. he cannot answer. she says represent well and youre back now. but his softly spoken reply  am i. sometimes i wonder  is the key to his character. as light and shadow flicker across his face and we know that there are some horrors that cannot be put into words. the disproportionate casualties suffered by junior officers of his sort  straight out of school or university and expected to lead from the front  are well known. in a nervous speech (during which helen reassures him) to local political folk at a dinner party and he reveals that he will stand as an independent and no longer as a liberal (the party which had taken the country into the war). his emotional life is as damaged as ledbetter . he cannot easily extricate himself from connie and who depends on him emotionally and financially represent reading between the lines and she is probably a war widow (perhaps of a former comrade. ) with a child and whose drawings we see on the wall of her home. spoilersthe crisis between the trio builds slowly and with a frightening scene between helen and ledbetter in the car and and ledbetter listening in to hugh and connie when he is driving them and as hugh tries to persuade connie that and even as his relationship with helen develops and they can continue theirs while that he will and at least and continue to support her. jealousy and obsession and his belief that he must protect helen from a duplicitous gold digger lead ledbetter to confront her and hugh violently in her home. the ending is entirely different from that of the novel and and is better for it represent it is dramatic and but less melodramatic and and maintains an unsentimental tone. we began with one character recovering from a mental breakdown while we end with another suffering one. helen and one senses and is now wiser and stronger than both the men and who have been unable fully to adapt to the so called land fit for heroes to which they returned from the nightmare of total war. the new ending is open represent one feels that she and at least and will cope with whatever lies ahead and without illusions. in this and it reflects well the reality of the time and in which women (helen and connie and and so many others) had to pick up the pieces of a world in which too many men had died or had come home with varying degrees of mental and physical damage. well and youre back now.  am i. sometimes i wonder. 
i was recently given this film on dvd as a gift and and was unsure at first if it would appeal (although one of my favourite actors has a leading role). in fact and it on its way to becoming a favourite. first of all represent thankfully and it not the same as the book and the ending of which i think is excessively melodramatic. secondly represent it one of the best films i have seen about the first world war. what. you may ask. it not a war film. true represent we see no battles or bombardments and no trenches and no gas. but it shows the cost of war and the damage done to the lives of the men who fought in it and and the impact this had on those close to them. we first see helen (sarah miles) and a baronet widow and awaiting her release from a mental hospital. all the women in the film appear to be widows represent some from the war and but helen much older husband and sir thomas (we see him later in a photograph) was taken ill and died while she was at a party and hence her guilt stricken breakdown. she is lost and lonely. the wire around the hospital grounds evokes pow camps and the trenches represent like many of the men in the outside world and helen is suffering from a kind of shell shock. out of hospital and she has to find her feet in the outside world again represent a world we experience through her eyes as bleak and desolate and unfriendly. her mother is unable to provide her with any real support. herself a widow and she has put up her own emotional defences and behind which she hides to avoid dealing with her daughter distress. (like many people and especially in that time and she seems to find mental illness embarrassing. )ledbetter and the hired driver and becomes a supportive presence and and helps helen begin to adjust to life again and but she does not realise that he is becoming dangerously obsessed with her. this is a superb performance by robert shaw. ledbetter is a former regular soldier and an ex sergeant major who runs a boxing club and has set up his own car hire business. superficially and he seems tough and strong and dependable and but there are cracks beneath the surface represent he has not really adjusted to civilian life. he invents (for reasons he later explains) a family and home life he does not have while he has brutal outbursts with colleagues and and affection less sex. getting close to helen  a woman whom and even with the greater post war social freedom and he could not realistically have hoped to marry  exposes psychological fault lines that tear him apart. these days and one might diagnose ptsd. the same is true of the other man in helen life and aspiring politician captain hugh cantrip (peter egan). he is ambitious and handsome and but also very young. tellingly and his girlfriend and connie (caroline mortimer) and mothers him and combing his hair and making sure he has a clean handkerchief before he goes out. he is known to both ledbetter and helen represent the former had served under him during the war and and helen had met him in political circles and had thought him a popinjay. however and he and helen now begin a relationship and with helen intending to support his political career and financially and emotionally. peter egan and fresh from his stage success as stanhope in r c sheriff journey end and makes hugh more than an immature cad. there is a revealing and understated scene in the back of the car between helen and hugh and in which they quote brooke the old vicarage at grantchester. she asks and of his war experience and was it very bad. he cannot answer. she says represent well and youre back now. but his softly spoken reply  am i. sometimes i wonder  is the key to his character. as light and shadow flicker across his face and we know that there are some horrors that cannot be put into words. the disproportionate casualties suffered by junior officers of his sort  straight out of school or university and expected to lead from the front  are well known. in a nervous speech (during which helen reassures him) to local political folk at a dinner party and he reveals that he will stand as an independent and no longer as a liberal (the party which had taken the country into the war). his emotional life is as damaged as ledbetter . he cannot easily extricate himself from connie and who depends on him emotionally and financially represent reading between the lines and she is probably a war widow (perhaps of a former comrade. ) with a child and whose drawings we see on the wall of her home. spoilersthe crisis between the trio builds slowly and with a frightening scene between helen and ledbetter in the car and and ledbetter listening in to hugh and connie when he is driving them and as hugh tries to persuade connie that and even as his relationship with helen develops and they can continue theirs while that he will and at least and continue to support her. jealousy and obsession and his belief that he must protect helen from a duplicitous gold digger lead ledbetter to confront her and hugh violently in her home. the ending is entirely different from that of the novel and and is better for it represent it is dramatic and but less melodramatic and and maintains an unsentimental tone. we began with one character recovering from a mental breakdown while we end with another suffering one. helen and one senses and is now wiser and stronger than both the men and who have been unable fully to adapt to the so called land fit for heroes to which they returned from the nightmare of total war. the new ending is open represent one feels that she and at least and will cope with whatever lies ahead and without illusions. in this and it reflects well the reality of the time and in which women (helen and connie and and so many others) had to pick up the pieces of a world in which too many men had died or had come home with varying degrees of mental and physical damage. well and youre back now.  am i. sometimes i wonder. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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