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anyone watch "Born Equal"?

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hatwoman · 17/12/2006 22:28

absolutely brilliant

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DizzyBinterWonderland · 18/12/2006 09:48

i loved it too. and i cried at the hospital bit when they were taking her daughter away, not like me at all!!

michelles's baby was ok. the end bit had her in the postnatal ward with her baby. then it went to the posh mum in her post natal ward with her baby.

expatinscotland · 18/12/2006 09:49

Reminded me of 'Dirty Pretty Things'.

Gingerbear · 18/12/2006 09:54

I wept when Michelle's daughter Danielle was taken away at the hospital. Anne Marie Duff is a great actress.

Pinotmum · 18/12/2006 09:57

I loved it and though the ironing beckoned I couldn't not watch to the end . Apparently it was unscripted and unrehearsed (according to one paper anyway).

saadia · 18/12/2006 10:06

It was certainly very compelling. I didn't realise it was improvised. The line Michelle said about how we should all have someone looking out for us really stayed with me. So many people have no-one, as the film showed. I think it showed the utter randomness of life, anything can happen.

DizzyBinterWonderland · 18/12/2006 10:08

the only thing that slightly put me off was her off nighty night being the accommodation woman. i kept thinking she'd do something funny. glad she wasn't on it much.

DimpledThighs · 18/12/2006 10:14

Give me shameless anyday!

But agree child being taken away by social services in the hospital was veruy moving.

Thought it was good - not great though - I don't like coincidences in dramas - I mean come on 'of all the car in all of london you have to go a walk into mine'!

Depressing, but reminded me however hard my life has been I am still very lucky! (was thinking about times with children feeling bored then thought god imagine tht in the middle of nowehere with no-one in a B & B)

bakedpotato · 18/12/2006 10:21

One of those progs that makes you think: so what, really, can be done?
Watching the drama, I couldn't see any answers to the questions it raised.

expatinscotland · 18/12/2006 10:28

Colin's looking old these days.

SmileysPeople · 18/12/2006 10:46

My Dh looks like Colin Firth. Apparently.
He told me the secretaries at work told him that.
He is starting to look old though. They both are actually.

bakedpotato · 18/12/2006 10:57

Smileys, Bundle's DH also looks like CF (I'm taking her word on this...)
You should get them together for a convention. CF could come and make an address. Wearing a checky shirt.

SmileysPeople · 18/12/2006 11:02

They'd all have to wear jodpurs and end the conference diving into to the hotel swimmimg pool.
But maybe if CF himself was there they'd all discover that actually they look very little like CF.
Better not to disullusion their handsome thick dark haired little heads.

bakedpotato · 18/12/2006 11:05

lol

purplemonkeydasheranddancer · 18/12/2006 11:14

shit!!!!
did anyone tape it???!!!!
i'll trade torchwood and hogfather for it!!!

expatinscotland · 18/12/2006 11:14

It was depressing, purple.

purplemonkeydasheranddancer · 18/12/2006 11:16

i had heard that RC what really really good in it.
but the last thing i need right now is something depressing!

belgo · 18/12/2006 11:16

I wanted to watch it, but hearing how depressing it was, I'm quite glad I missed it.

pedilia · 18/12/2006 11:16

I thought it was brilliant, yes it was depressing but that is the reality of some people's lives.

Notquitesotiredmum · 18/12/2006 14:01

I thought that it was really good too - a few corners cut in order to avoid making it six hours long (honestly, would Colin Firth, an untrained volunteer for the homeless charity, really be told to take the vulnerable 17 year old back to her bedroom to get to know her better!?!) but I thought the ending was just right. I've known people like Robert, and OK in real life he would have stabbed someone else not Cf, but Robert stated the whole point just before he killed him - why should some people have it all, and others have nothing.

Just the sort of thing that should be on at Christmas, I think - well anything and everything with CF should be on at Christmas . . . . Now there's a thought BBC. A CF season. Mmmmmmmmmmm

DeckthehallsLaDiDaDi · 18/12/2006 14:11

I thought it was a great piece of drama. I cried when social services came to take Danielle to foster parents.

MrsArchieTheInventor · 18/12/2006 14:11

With reference to the ending, I can't stop thinking about Tom ap Rhys Pryce.

Very thought provoking drama and very well acted/improvised.

expatinscotland · 18/12/2006 14:13

No doubt, notquite. DH was watching it and said, 'Aye, right! That bloke would have been all over that young girl.'

BethleCAM · 18/12/2006 14:36

Superb acting, I thought it was depressing and scary and topical.

expatinscotland · 18/12/2006 14:47

So did he actually kill Colin then?

I just saw blood all over his hands.

expatinscotland · 18/12/2006 14:48

The moral of it all:

Don't get involved.

If you've got spare cash sitting in your drawer that could save someone's life, don't even offer to help.