Summary
MY MIND is full of the extraordinary new film about our most celebrated hangman, Albert Pierrepoint. You could say that it is trying to do for hanging what Vera Drake did for abortion.
There are the lovingly created sets of dingeville England in the old days, where the working classes lived in a sepia haze, and everything is brown - their tea, beer, the air they breathed.See the full content of this document
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This Film Changed My Mind About Hanging
There are the submissive women, the diffident attitudes to sex, the patriotism, the old values which we are glad to see the back of.
That lies at the heart of both films. With Vera Drake, we ...See the full content of this document
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