In 2018, the BBC once again produced this high-scoring drama after the eight-episode 15-minute monologue drama "She Said: A Moment in Women's Life".
Adapted from the original 1988 and 1998 "Chattering Life" by Alain Bennett, he is a stage drama master, both "History Boys" focusing on the youthful works of high school students, which captures the inner activities of teenagers very accurately, and "Literary Orientation", which explores the reconciliation between actors and scripts/narrators and scripts, he is very good at describing the small moods and small thoughts of the characters, full of literary foundations, and the spicy and sophisticated lines are full of very thorough interpretations of life.
The film's two directors are experts in the field of stage plays, Nicholas Sitner won the British Academy Film Award for "Crazy King George", and Josie Locke's plays have always occupied a very important position in the UK.
Therefore, such a one-act drama is a matter of convenience for such a skilled screenwriter and director. And the actors, really can be described as the top configuration of the United Kingdom, a total of 12 episodes, 12 actors, the middle and young generation to the national treasure level of the old actors.
Jodie Comer became a global hit for "Kill Eve," Martin Freeman's role as Watson in Sherlock, and Tamsin Greig's "Black Bookstore" super classic.
Sarah Lancashire's "Valley of Happiness" is dark and deep, and Maxine Peake's "Royal Lawyer" has become a masterpiece of legal drama...
The youngest Jodie is only 27 years old, the oldest Harriet Walter is 70 years old, the ultra-luxurious lineup, from the look to the body, from the expression to the action, these drama bones appear on the screen every second, are extremely delicate portrayal of the character.
The first episode, "The Woman Who Wrote the Letter," starred 60-year-old Emeda Stanton, tells the story of an old lady who lives in her fantasies and always writes to the relevant departments because of various small things, some complaining, some being grateful. She relied on her fantasies to cause one trouble after another.
A family of three moved across the street, but she had only seen the children once, and the men were always just tinkering with the vehicles in front of the door, and the couple went out every night, but did not see anyone go in to take care of the children.
So she wrote to the relevant departments to complain, thinking that the wife opposite was a prostitute, the child was not taken care of, the husband ate white food, and the police came to the door and explained to her that the child had leukemia, and the couple ran back and forth with the hospital and home every day.
The actor convulsed the corners of her mouth when she talked about the child's leukemia, and she had to endure crying, and the change in her micro-expression under the gaze of the camera showed the violent emotional change in her heart.
At this moment, what we see is not a nosy annoying elf, but an ordinary old lady with ordinary people's feelings, she is just overzealous, she is just too lonely.
The second episode, "An Ordinary Woman", starred Sarah Lancashire, fell in love with her 15-year-old son, who knew from the beginning that incest was wrong, but she couldn't control her emotions, and the son couldn't accept it when he found out, because it was not only morally degrading, but also illegal. He stopped touching her, no longer doing any of the usual intimate contact between mother and child, her reason told herself that she could only do this, she took the medicine prescribed by the doctor, suppressed her thoughts, but she was just an ordinary person... Sarah takes her struggles to a rich level, interpreting both maternal love and abnormal love for her son through monologues, and what we see is not a pervert, but a mother who struggles in pain by trying not to do anything wrong.
Each episode has a story, all monologues, some of which are extremely fast, and the pronunciation of different identities and different regions is also different, very attentive. The whole season has been released, look fast!