Wicked Little Letters - warning 😁

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This was a very enjoyable film, great actors - Olivia Colman, Timothy Spall, Jessie Buckley, Tim Key to name a few.

But - don't go to watch it if you have issues with swearing. I'm not sure there's a film out there with more!

My favourite scene was when Olivia's character told her dad, played by Timothy Spall, what she was thinking.

A light fun film based on a true story - if that's your thing, you'll enjoy it. (As long as you aren't like a woman that I spoke to recently that thinks swearing in anything is 'boring and lazy'. This film is not for her).

Saw it last night . Fantastic acting and how they kept straight faces with some of those scenes I'll never know .
It is very very sweary but somehow so fitting it's not offensive .
Loved it .

Absolutely Hilarious😂 whole cinema laughing. Bet they had a few goes at the scenes 😂 best bit at the end when she tells her father what she thinks of him.

I saw it last night, great acting, very funny, whole cinema was chuckling away, lovely feelgood film.

Much of it is hilarious, with great performances.

But I am surprised more hasn’t been made of a hidden dark heart, that I felt uneasy about because it was treated as such a footnote.

Spoilers:

It seemed clear to me that Edith’s behaviour was an outlet or reaction to the truly horrible emotional abuse and control by her Dad, and that Rose’s lies about having bern married, and refusal to name the father, and frequent references to escaping ‘family’ also raised the possibility of sexual abuse of some nature.

I put the Rose marriage thing down to her covering the shame of having a child out of wedlock. Edith yes, a darker side to her story was fairly obvious. The warning at the beginning mentioned controlling behaviour.

This film is a tragedy NOT A COMEDY.
The story of a dysfunctional family in 1920 s UK. The abuse, controlling father grinds down his wife and his daughter who develops a personality disorder and fear of her vile father. So corruptedby her life she sends letters to herselfcontaining crude and vulgar language , blaming the Irish woman next door for sending the letters. Until the trail of said innocent , wild, spirited Irishwoman, she is sent to jail. When the truth is discovered the perpetrator/ victim of abuse with severe psychiatrc/ psychological problems , is sent to jsil for a year with hard labour. . Racism, mysogeny and creepy religiousity throughout, avery disturbing film. Shame on Spall for not challenging the " comedy" film of the year description. The women's estate is grim in 2024, imagine 1920.

Tragedy and comedy are not mutually exclusive. In fact, together they are a genre all of their own. Black comedy.

Titless Turnip is now my go to insult.
And Call that a chin?

This! I really enjoyed it and I laughed out loud. But it's roots are in an abusive father, an abusive husband (or two arguably) and the misogyny of that period. A few swearwords - so what?! I find it weird so many women just class it as a comedy. Her anger finally erupted and was unstoppable.