Who is ready for 3 cinema trips in less than 24hs? Hands up? yep just me. But that is the life of a person who has worked out if she does this that Wicked for Good will be trip 100 of 2025 & ive not even actively attempted the 100 club this year but here we are. Tonight though is all about the Choral. I dont know much about this, ive seen the trailer maybe twice & been like yay Ralph & thats about it. Its time to see if its any good.

I am lowering the average age of my screening. I know i sometimes say this, but this one i really am. The next youngest person in here is late 50s. & theres about another 12 people in here other than me.

Trailers were all a little safe if that makes sense. As well as wicked we had a film about Morris dancing, sentimental value, rental family & a weird hawk film all stuff for older people.

& then the film started… i have issues linked to the film & not linked to it.

My viewing experience of this film was actually ruined. The lady behind me kept talking & whenever something profound & life changing was said she would talk very loudly about it not being accurate & then also at the point where it was alluded to the lead being gay she kicked off. Several other people as well as me told her to hush & she didnt & then her phone went off twice.
I did have to “go to the bathroom” & made sure i found a member of staff who recognised me as a regular & explained what was going on. Luckily for me the lady behind me had an obvious colour coat & hat on so i said she had been talking though out the film & had been discriminant & also her phone wasnt on silent (listen to the paramount plus goat). I then did use the bathroom &then went back to my seat. About 5 mins after that someone as they always do came to do an audience check & clocked her. Then she needed the bathroom & came back about 10mins later & sat away from me. She continued to talk.
Then when the film ended & i was getting up to leave she uttered loudly, bloody kids ruining peoples evenings. Clearly about me. I mean ive not been called a kid for ages so that was nice, but it did ruin my viewing. It was almost as bad as watching Minecraft if im honest. She was rude loud & entitled. It wasnt even like she was talking to a friend, she was on her own. Just why, WHY!?

Rant over but you can see why this may have effected my viewing a little.

It was interesting to watch how people treated others back then & how attitudes towards certain things have change in the 100 years that have passed, but how we still even now need to grow. IT shows how people can be so quick to judge & not care about how there judgement might effect others around them who they like.

Upety people are always a bug bear. From the people going well im rich im entitled to this , to them just being happy to send there kids off to war or being like urgh you didnt go when they wanted to help out in another way, & then when they did come back changed forever how they werent cared for really or seen as a drain. Its just long. The most tellign part was when they all celebrate the germans being sunk & Fiennes character used to live in Germany & have a german partner & he was clearly upset because it could have been his other half or friends that died on that ship that he never heard from again &yet everyone he cared about around him was celebrating it. I felt for him so much.

Was that genuinely what happened back then to the objectors of going to war? Or was that dramatized a little?

I thought we would see the final choral performance in full, but no we didnt, we saw it in parts. That felt a little off. We had spent so long trying to get the right people in it & the way it was done & then we only really watched it for maybe 6 minutes, i was hoping for at least 20 if not 30, but no we jumped about. Yes we saw impactful moments but no i wanted more. I had invested in this choir & performance, & your not going to show it all. How dare you movie.

Did we need that intimate moment in the film, im not sure we did. It didnt bother me but a few of the people even more than the woman who was irritating in my screening were like oh we dont need to see that or tutting. its a film, its art. It could have been done a little bit better.

This threw in drama at points that it didnt need to. It felt like it needed to make you want things to happen a lot more than it actually did, when it could have just been a sweet little film about the war & how singing at a time of need brings people together.

Fiennes is always incredible. Hes maybe 1 or 2 performances away from being top peak with the other 3 (maybe 4 depending on Timothee soon).

I liked the photos before they went to war, moving but also sweet, like this is when one part of their lives ended before the next part started. They will also if they were unfortunate always immortalised at that age & still full of life & hope. This was shown in the splits between the trains leaving & The trains coming home. A very bleak contrast.

This is pleasant & sweet, but its not going to set the world on fire or win lots of awards. If im honest it woudlnt surprise me if in 6 months time ive forgotten everything about this average film except for fiennes.