Diagonaldi Very well executed

Steineded How sad is this?

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

brendanofarrell-14941 A bereft husband walks along the bank of a quiet river until he comes to his wife curled on the ground, crying for their deceased daughter. He doesn't run to his wife. Instead, he only picks up his pace slightly as he takes off his coat and puts it over her crumpled body. He helps her up and looks over the marsh as a gentle wind blows the reedy grasses haphazardly about. "I'll take you home," he says. "Okay? I'll take you home." The husband's gesture is rooted in futility and pain, beauty and kindness. As Thomas Wolfe once wrote, "You can never go home again." This is particularly true when you live in Southcliffe--a quaint but provincial town set in gloomy, fictional England. A lone gunman has gone on a killing spree, murdering a number of community members without ceremony or fanfare. One neighbor is working in her garden. There are no witness to her murder. Only a single bullet from afar. The husband and wife crying along the river bank are just two more of town's victim-survivors, grappling to come to terms with what's left of their life. The mass shooting and the murder of their daughter took place more than a year ago when the scene is presented. You can never go home again. This is how the four-part miniseries unwinds for its viewers. It is a slow and patient drama that jumps from past to present and back again. It is a masterpiece of pace and elliptical pauses. The acting is heart-wrenching and brilliant. The script soars with unadorned language in which some of the most vicious and touching lines unfold in the spaces between words.You can never go home again. For T.V. Journalist David Whithead (Rory Kinear), who has been sent back to his hometown to cover the unfolding tragedy, this statement means something entirely different. As a boy growing up in Southcliffe, he was routinely bullied by the townsfolk in the wake of his father's sudden and unexpected death. He knows Southcliffe to be a brutal and unforgiving place wrapped in the niceties of dishonesty and pretense. Yet, at the command of his manager, return he must. In the year that follows, we watch him--and several others in the community--struggle with the tragedy's psycho-emotional aftermath: Were the shootings really random? Did we, as a community, do something to deserve them? The husband's gesture to take his wife back to their home is beautiful and kind--not because things are going to be any better when they walk through the front door--but rather because the husband is committed to suffering eternally with his wife and the town of Southcliffe.

cathie454 This is a look into a small community and how they deal with a mass shooting in their town. The reporter who comes to report on the story (from a big news agency) was originally from the small town, and so his ties to it and understanding of it should have added to the story, but it really didn't, since his life was told in as disjointed a way as all the other characters' stories. It was hard to follow the story, as it goes back and forth in time as well as back and forth with various character's stories and their time lines. Also, it was slow, I think because the director was trying to give a picture of each victim's family and situation, as well as the shooter's family and situation; I think if the story had been told differently, it would have been easier to become involved in the story. This would have made more sense if there was a more linear story line. As it is, it's OK, but I wouldn't recommend this, and I wouldn't want to watch it again.

tr91 Southcliffe really did sound promising after all I had read about it. There were quite a few familiar faces, the set looked perfect for the storyline and the plot was good. Stephen Morton as Sean Harris was an extremely dark and mysterious character who eventually goes on a killing spree in Southcliffe, we then see how this affects the lives of others.My main problem with Southcliffe was it was just painfully slow, the killing spree did happen quite quickly but everything else was hard to follow, there was so many different people affected by this and it was hard to keep track of who was who, and it just seemed completely unrealistic. The acting wasn't that great, certainly not powerful enough to make me believe a loved one had just died. I got half way through the 3rd episode and I was getting bored, I just couldn't relate to the characters or feel any emotion because it was so unrealistic and slow paced and I just had to stop watching it. There was just no explanation as to why Stephen Morton had just gone on a killing spree. Overall I was disappointed with the series but I can see why people would enjoy it, it was dark and there was tension. It did have all the makings for a great TV mini-series but maybe it just wasn't for me. I haven't given it a rating because I didn't manage to watch it in full.

Tweekums This bleak drama opens with a woman being shot as she tends her garden; we then go back to see what led ex-squaddie Stephan Morton to go on a killing spree. He learn how nobody took him seriously and mocked his claims to have served in the SAS; this escalates and he is brutally attacked by a serving soldier and a former member of the regiment. The next day he shoots the mother he has been caring for before setting off and shooting at anybody he can get in his sights. Later episodes show us the impact of what he did on the bereaved, on the community as a whole and on a journalist who has returned to Southcliffe to report on the events but is still haunted by his miserably childhood there.If you like your drama bleak then this is for you; everything about the location from the foggy marshes to the plaintive calls of the marsh birds serves to keep things suitably downbeat. Sean Harris, who seems the go-to guy if you want a psychopath, goes a fine job as Morton and the excellent Shirley Henderson is great as bereaved mother Claire. Things start well but unfortunately turn overly melodramatic when TV reporter David Whitehead has a meltdown on air then goes to the pub and tells the locals they had it coming! There is also no explanation of how Morton is in possession of an AK-47 as such weapons were banned after the frequently referenced Hungerford shootings in the '80s. Despite these flaws it is still worth watching if you like emotional dramas; and at only four episodes you won't waste too much to if you don't like it.