An Inspector Calls

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DS will be studying this book this year (I've read it myself years ago) so I'm sure he'll be delighted to watch this on BBC.

Hopefully it follows the book and doesn't wander on track too much.

Love David Thewlis (ever since Prime Suspect 3 where he played the creepy leather clad pimp in leather )

We are enjoying it. DS is trying not to over-analyse it.

Please somebody acknowledge my distress at the flashbacks. The whole point of not showing the family members the photo at the same time was to leave it hanging that it might not be the same girl.
Please just nod and smile .

Noeuf the flashbacks are giving away half the plotline as well!
I didn't remember anything about it might not have been the same girl

He only shows the photo to one person at a time even when they ask. Are they just horrible people or was it the same girl with a whole serious of unfortunate encounters

www.yorknotes.com/gcse/an-inspector-calls-york-notes-for-gcse-new-edition/study/plot-action/01150200_act-three-part-5-three-telephone-calls-pp-6172

I didn't make it up

shhh there there. Of course you're right. The girl is a metaphor for all the working class ground down by the toffs, that's why they don't see the photo.

It is my all time favourite play. This adaptation is very good.

thank you fuckery thank you

If I remember rightly (and GCSEs where a whole back for me) the idea it could be a different girl was only hinted at. The other thing that wasn't mentioned that meant something was the inspector's name.

It's been simplified for TV with the flash backs, simplified in the sense it's easier to understand all the implications you had to read into with the play.

I like it though.

But it is very clear in the play that it is the same girl and the Inspector is just using the photo as a way of extracting information one by one from the family.
Alastair Sim one is the best. He really is quite ghoul like! They also have flashbacks in that.

Although yes the use of the photo is to show it could definitely have been 5 different girls all screwed over by the upper classes

No it isn't there's definitely the possibility (and also raised within the play by Gerald) that it's not the same girl.

Otherwise the inspector wouldn't keep saying no when they all want to see the photo.

Hopefully it might engage da yoof more than the the 70s version that gets trotted out.

Yes 12 yr old DS is engrossed and full of theory to be fair

Hang on....

I'm hoping they kept the ending?

I'm finding the ending quite powerful

Ofgs

Worked out it's been 25 years since I did the play, I'm going to have to read those notes up there ^^ to see exactly what they messed around with.
David Thewlis was excellent as always though.

Oh, I loved this but I don't think I know what's going on! Who is the Inspector then? I presume the name is meant to be a manifestation of their consciences and that they will need to account for their sins? Or is that wrong, wrong, wrong?

The Alastair Sim one is even hammier as he's supposed to be in a side room and when they go in all the find is an empty chair rocking slowly

That's one of the main interpretations yes

Edith, basically anything outside the house isn't in the play ~ it's recounted by the characters so you get the additional element of unreliable narrators rather than a straightforward flashback. It's all about oppression and the butterfly effect and the class divide and lots of other things including your interpretation.
I really hated the added bits in the hospital/morgue. Like we are all too thick to understand to draw any conclusions.

Anya - a woman inspector in black calls?