Oh my, I LOVE this last scene. I pretty much knew that they'd do something like this going in and I expected to weep. I did. But what I didn't expect was the other time tears came to my eyes: the incinerator scene. When all the characters realized there was no way out, they just held hands, ready to perish together. Those two scenes were the reason that I limited myself to seeing this movie once in the theater and then not again for a year. Then, I've seen it only one more time since. It's too special to be watered down by repeated viewings. The other two? Seen them a lot, but the third is special.
To my mind, this is the most success trilogy of movies for kids ever. I saw all three of them with my grandson and we both loved every minute. Yes, the third is the best (IMHO). The most mature of them certainly.
Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of two print novels CONCRETE ANGEL (2015) and SHOT IN DETROIT (2016)(Polis Books). CONCRETE ANGEL was nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award in 2016. SHOT IN DETROIT was nominated for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award in 2017. A collection of her stories I BRING SORROW AND OTHER STORIES OF TRANSGRESSION will appear in 2018.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
Patricia (Patti) Abbott
SHOT IN DETROIT
Edgar Nominee 2017, Anthony nominee 2017
CONCRETE ANGEL
Polis Books, 2015-nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards
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Hi Patti
Here's my FFB:
http://inkquilletc.blogspot.com/2014/03/forgotten-books-up-at-villa-by-somerset.html
Up at the Villa by Somerset Maugham
Thanks
Oh my, I LOVE this last scene. I pretty much knew that they'd do something like this going in and I expected to weep. I did. But what I didn't expect was the other time tears came to my eyes: the incinerator scene. When all the characters realized there was no way out, they just held hands, ready to perish together. Those two scenes were the reason that I limited myself to seeing this movie once in the theater and then not again for a year. Then, I've seen it only one more time since. It's too special to be watered down by repeated viewings. The other two? Seen them a lot, but the third is special.
To my mind, this is the most success trilogy of movies for kids ever. I saw all three of them with my grandson and we both loved every minute. Yes, the third is the best (IMHO). The most mature of them certainly.
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