My Boy Jack tonight - I've already cried about this twice now and I haven't even watched it yet...

[emkana]

... have been reading articles about it in the papers this weekend and it sounds unbearably sad.

Will be interesting to see Daniel Radcliffe - don't really rate him as an actor much, so will look and see whether he does a good job here.

Recorded it but will watch it without DH so I can bawl in privacy. Tissues at the ready.

I'll be interested to see if wotsername from sex and the city is any good in it

It's about Rudyard Kipling's son - he was severely short-sighted and didn't need to go into the army during the 1st World War, but Kipling pulled strings to get him in anyway - Jack then died in the battle of loos, only 18 years old.

His parents were stricken with remorse.

Looking forward to it here too.

This may sound daft, but because it is with Daniel Radcliffe, I am thinking it might move me more than otherwise, because I do have a motherly feeling towards young DR. (Or is it HP?)

Ah well it is a true story LL

PMSL at plot being revealed. Synopsis: young short sighted man goes off to fight in WW1. What other outcome would you be expecting?

i'm sure it'll be really good, but my progesterone levels are soaring this early on in pregnancy and it's already sinking me back into what will likely be another case of ante-natal depression, so no thanks.

Oh sorry

The plot was in the all the other papers so I thought...

it's not really about the plot is it?

Emkana, did you read the Sunday Times article?

Kipling wrote after the war:

'If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.'

Those lines alone are heartrending, don't you think?

Yes, DG, I did read that and it made me choke up.

Also found it very moving to read that Kipling came up with the epitath (is that the word?) "Known unto God" for the gravestones for soldiers who were never found/identified.

They never found Jack.

It had occured to me that if the woman playing Mrs Kipling could not fake a realistic British accent then she really shouldn't have got the part!

Wasn't she American tho'

Oh! Well that would be different then I suppose!

Crying - the 2 photos on the mantlepiece

No, she is not.

She is Kim Catrall. Born in Liverpool to two Liverpudlian parents.

Who moved to Canada when she was young.

She is British.

And Canadian.

I meant Mrs Kipling (nee Carrie Walcott) was American so the actress would need an American accent

Perhaps she was asked to emulate teh voice of an American expat who'd spent a long, long time abroad.

It attenuates many peoples' accents over time, such as what happened to Kylie's Australian accent when she lived for years in England, or Nicole Kidman's when she lived in America - she is also a dual national.

She was from Vermont & the actress, I thought, very successfully emulated the turn of the century east coast accent - if you think of other films set in the same era - the east coast accent is very different to the modern American accent

Gillian Anderson can do taht accent really well, too.

I thought Daniel Radcliffe was surprisingly good in it.

I felt sick to my stomach when they were getting ready to go over.

What brilliant casting, they look as if they really could be father and son!!!
Kim Catrral was fantastic.
I've cried loads, it all got a bit too much for me when he opened the telegram.