Distant Voices, Still Lives

I personally really enjoyed Distant Voices, Still Lives. It was different from most movies I’ve seen before in the fact that the story wasn’t linear. I found that because the movie wasn’t linear it made me pay real close attention so I could understand what was going on with each character. I feel the music was such a huge part of the movie and I liked how the characters expressed their selves in song. It was like everyone had a song that was their own that the friends and family liked to hear them sing, but there were also songs that everyone had fun at the pub and sang together. The only thing I found weird was it seemed that even though the father was terrible to the family they still missed him. For example even though Eileen was slapped around she still cried on her wedding day wanting her father. I like how when each seen ended it would fade out to black or white. I thought Terence Davies did a good job representing how memories actually are how they fade in and out and thought it was a nice touch when going back and forth from past to present. I also found interesting that a lot of the film was just shots of the window, door way, or stair case. Over all it was an enjoyable movie, but I think if I watch it again I will get more out of it.