Rare posting not about book...

...though i will tack on a little book progress at the end.

Watched a film i enjoyed more than any 'veseen in quite a long time. Finding Neverland about the author of Peter Pan, JM Barrie. I had been aware of it for some time and had heard only good things about it, just never got round to it. It's a wee quiet movie that for it has little flashes of imaginative grandeur is just all about the characters and is quietly effective and I found very moving. Welling up near the end so I was, not that many films that I remember doing that whilst watching.

Off the top of my head only Strictly Ballroom(which i also watched quite recently again), the bit in Revenge of the Sith when all the Jedi are betrayed and killed, the of last episode of series 6 Red Dwarf have been known to bring a tear to the eye. Sure there have been others, there is something else i saw a few times on the tip of my tongue that i can't quite remember, but it's not that often is the main point.

So i was quite glad to have seen it and i would reccomend it it well anyone who can enjoy a film that doesn't need to have lots of action to keep them interested. Oh yeah another reason i was pleasantly surprised at enjoying it was that i really really did not like Peter Pan. Two reasons for that.

Number one is that as well as I remember is that it was the first ever film I was taken to see as a child. It was a family outing to the then 'big' cinema in Hamilton which had 3 screens. (Was a cracking wee cinema that shames it's been knocked down and replaced by a souless multiplex.) There was myself, my mum, my big sister and my gran. However my mum and sister went to see Police Academy 3 and I had to go with my gran to see a cartoon version of Peter Pan and I was in a right huff about it and didn't enjoy it one bit. I think i moaned so much that a week later my sister was sent with me to go and see Police Academy 3 again, which at the time I loved and developed a long lasting fascination with. I'll still quite happily watch any of the first 3 of a sunday afternoon but by god after that it's an impressive feat how each one after manages to be worse than the last. I still remember with horror going to see Mission to Moscow with low low expectations and managing to be disappointed.

The second reason is the film Hook. I thought it was awful enough in itself but again it was a film I saw not through choice. Was on a school ski trip the year it was out and due to a lack of snow we ended up in the nearest cinema and this is what we were essentially forced to watch, no choice in the matter was that or sit on a bus probably. If the bus option was real rather than imagined i wish i would have went for that as i thought it was terrible terrible film and despite been a non Peter Pan lover it seem to border on the sacriligeous.

So despite bad Peter Pan experiences I found Finding Neverland really good and well i think the original Peter Pan is probably worth reassessing as the way the film ties in real life to the play gave it a lot more emotional depth.

Book progress. 17 chapters and about 72,500 words written. Been having to do a lot of thinking, some big final decisions on the fates of characters and so on. My structure outline has always been a guide rather than a strick backbone to the story, after a lot of thinking on friday and this morning I think I have about nailed down pretty much exactly how it's all going to finish. Which means barring a really big change I have 4 chapters left to write. Next one is a big one though, it might have to be split into two, but I'll not know though that until I've written it. Started on it this very day.