The advert John Lewis should have made

[DroningOn]

Get the kleenex out!

www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1049376/John-Lewis-Christmas-advert-UK-viral-video-Love-is-a-Gift-latest

Big of background info

*bit

Crikey. Saw the Elton one last night. How lovely that after years of non speakers with his mother, he's been able to exploit her memory for a bit of commercial gain. Christmassy. Anything must be better than that.

What is it advertising? Walkmans? Tin boxes? Cassettes? Not giving any gifts at all? Dying so that you can leave your offspring a gift of love?

I prefer animals bouncing on a trampoline personally.

I'm sure this thread was posted yesterday

It's over Facebook as well. It's not sad, that dude needs to stop brooding and get on with his life.

Meh! I thought it was overly mawkish. And l that moping. Irritating.

And his mum is alive and well.

It feels pretty sad when you’ve lost your mum and you’re looking at another Christmas without her.

However - the actor was just so hipster, I thought it was an advert for that cereal killers cafe at first. He looks just like them!

www.irishnews.com/news/2015/09/27/news/london-cereal-cafe-owned-by-belfast-twin-brothers-attacked-by-activists-274890/

It's too miserable for a Christmas ad, it needs a bit of lightness to it.

I don't like it. Too gloomy for Christmas

Why are so many comparing it to the JL advert?

And, although I know it’s a short film, his mum is still alive and was in the papers today. A tad morbid

bit annoying

Unless it is for cancer research ?

10 tapes. Almost 30 years old now. So she died when he was 19...hardly necessary to go making tapes for is it?

Isn’t it a piss take of Christmas Ads? That opening music, the lingering close ups of hanging a bauble, the ‘passing of time’ trope....