Okay, it’s quite easy to critique the work of a dead man without fear of his rebuttal, unless he’s a zombie and then you have a quite different problem all together. So here’s my main problem so far.
Sir, there is a technique in filmmaking known as elliptical editing, cutting out the unnecessary bits so you focus on the nutmeat of the story. Did we really need a five minute scene of the girls in the store, buying their presents only when we know that they will be returned later? Focus on the March Girls’ charitable efforts my good man. Despite this I am glad you finished the scene with the shopkeeper giving each girl her own personal peppermint phallus.
Secondly could you pander any more to our boys overseas with that not so subtle speech about fighting the good fight? No you could not. The acting here is so much more wooden, I feel like I’m about to get a splinter.
Beth cried, I liked that. If I recall there is a line in the book to the extent of “Beth was crying, which was perfectly normal.”
Oh…and nice sadomasochism if I do say so myself.