Moviegoer19

I have been binge watching A Place to Call Home for the past couple of weeks. I started with Season 1, Episode 1 and am now halfway through Season 5. I usually don't review a show until I'm finished with it but I feel the need to now as my head is so full of the characters and places in the show.

I would call A Place to Call Home an upscale high quality soap opera but since I don't watch soap operas I don't know if that's accurate. It is highly dramatic, with ongoing plot changes and developments. Most of all it's the characters that have grabbed me. There are several important characters and each is played to the hilt. I'd also say that the settings can be seen as characters, too.

The show is visually stunning. From the indoor settings, to pastoral outdoor scenes, to the actors themselves, it is gorgeous to look at. The show can be seen as educational too the way it depicts this part of Australia, starting from just after WWII up to and through the 1950s.

I haven't gotten this involved with a show since I last watched Dr. Bramwell or House of Elliot. Definitely check it out if you haven't seen it.

Until last night the last time I watched this film was in the mid nineties after my special needs son was born. The film then struck me on so many levels, first that a musician/composer has a son who's deaf. The first time I saw it I was still adjusting to me with my high IQ having a son with limited intellectual capacity. My son has serious speech problems, making having a conversation with him virtually impossible. Then there's the issue of the "struggling artist", in the film a musician, in my case a writer and visual artist.

As I watched it last night, it was with the experience of thirty plus years of being my son's mother, as well as all the challenges of being a creative in this culture. Wow, it's a wonderful powerful movie: the acting, the script, top notch.