Knowing what you got, knowing what you need, knowing what you can live without-that's Inventory Control

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2008)

I just finished the screener version of this movie and I was impressed. The script is one of the best adaptation of a novel I have seen since The Godfather. The acting is on target in every scene and the editing does not disappoint. If you read the book you know the story and it plays out well here, but with more emphasis on April than Frank. At about 50 minutes into the film on a stroll through the woods with John Givings the main axis of the story is told. With the revelation that April and Frank are to move to Paris John asks "So what do a couple of young people like you have to run away from ?", to which Frank replies, "Maybe we are running from the hopeless emptiness of the whole life here.". John then muses "Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.". The next day (53:16 in the film) Frank is offered a better position in his firm. What will he do ? Frank isn't the man that April fantasized that he was when he returned from WW II with visions of Paris, a dream she has that makes her better then her surroundings, but leaves her empty like the vacuum tubes in the new Electronic Computers Frank decides to sell instead of escaping with April and their family to Paris. This is a movie that will appear deeper to those with more life experience than those with less, but certainly would be one to watch at many different points in ones life. Bravo to the filmmaker, cast and crew on the best effort (In the countless hours of screener I have watched this month) I have seen.