Thank you so much for uploading this, haven't seen it over 15 years. Quirky/funny/sad film. Its a real shame Emily Lloyd has so many health problems now, she was wonderful in this!
That poor dancing lady at the end.Most likely walking back to her furnished room with the pittance she earns from sympathetic holiday makers and day trippers to spend another lonely evening before doing it all again tomorrow for more pittance.Bless her,I know it’s only a film but I’ve felt sorry for that lady for 35 years
You're missing the emotional significance. Her rejection of rejection itself that makes her a 'naughty' girl. Her painful yearning for a mothers love, that endures to save her daughter, and gives her the chance to finally experience the bond she was denied.
The film is a dramatisation of cynthia paynes childhood years in Bognor, where she was born on Christmas Eve 1939. Personal services is based on her later years.
But she may not have really had that child ! Her father may have been a kind religious guy - so the scene may not have been necessary for Linda to have made it up. Cynthia Payne probably had a decent father - so she became frustrated with conformity.
the dad was typical of that era. he went to war, came back not knowing his daughters and had no idea or sympathy and never considered the fact they lost their mum. brought another woman into the house who had no time for them. all she really needed was a bit of love and affection. no wonder she acted up. any attention is attention.
There's just something about the way the tap-dancing fat lady puts away her things and leaves that makes me feel so sad inside. The poignancy of that final scene for me really captures the rapidly-changing values of those times, and the times themselves... Nothing lasts forever. Everthing always just winds up blowing away on the wind of time, all done, wrapped up, taken and all gone so far away... ,'-'
A wonderful sensitive film. Feel sorry for Linda, her Mum dying when she was a child, and being left with a cold father. No wonder she rebelled. Beneath that though, she just wanted love.😢 But film has plenty of humour for balance. Great stuff.
5:00 That house is on the end of the block (Semi detached) yet earlier on in the film when you see linda jumping around the garden shouting "Up your bum" Im pretty sure you clearly see houses and gardens next door both sides?? (Ive watched this movie well over 20 times and never noticed it before lol)
@@eyebrowman1 (Its Chubbylilloserhere on my new account) Yes, that's a very good point lol! I never thought of that.. Although, to be fair, it looks similar when you see him walking to the door? :/.
Yes - you are quite right. But remember we may be watching a fantasy within a fantasy . . . Linda may just be a frustrated middle class rich girl day- dreaming about being trapped, with her life all planned out for her. Your observation is a built in clue to the observant watcher, something is amiss.
i’ve always wondered how the mum died. she seemed very depressed so not sure if it was an illness or suicide. morbid i know but it has bugged me since 1987.
@WriterInSanFrancisco The 1950's weren't all bad, they were referred to as the 2nd Elizabethan era after the coronaton in 1953, rationing ended in 54 and life in general was getting better. And domestic violence still goes on. Some rapes may still go unreported today too.
Have we all been LOST IN A DREAM ? BEWARE POSSIBLE FANTASY . . . That last simple scene of Linda on her bike with that innocent windmill . . . Is she really just a daydreaming strict Catholic girl - loved by her family , but is too frustrated and naive Are her insults just learned behaviour - and why does she not know any real swearing ? Did she have all those rubbish jobs - or will she really be off to Oxbridge universities ? Have all men really let her down ? Did she really have that baby ? Was Linda just maintaining the lies to keep that status-quo ? What do YOU think ? . . .
But nothing probably did happen. This is Linda's fantasy life. Cynthia Payne probably had a religious upbringing that she rebelled against. Linda has made up a working class life for herself - to investigate what that would really entail !
