Review of Blue Remembered Hills

When reviewing Blue Remembered Hills' Blue Memory Mountain, you can see the ideal childhood view like a poem by AE Houseman. I saw it shining on a happy highway I came across I can not give back people a clean and happy time back to this short film AE Houseman. Dennis Porter's idea of ​​childhood is completely different from AE Houseman's poetry. Dennis Potters' drama is AE Houseman's poetry reversal, including the attitudes of children.

At first glance, Blue Remembered Hills seems to be an unnatural game. First, like the Golden Pathway Annual, an adult actor plays the role of child Michael, the character is a child and all actors are adults. But the scene of Blue Remembered Hills is totally naturalistic - everything that happens can happen in real life. By contrast, The Golden Pathway Annual has a moment like fantasy that Michael is a famous five dog, not obviously naturalistic.

Both dramas experience the theme of fantasy, but one experiences it naturally and the other experiences it unnaturally. At Blue Rimbered Hills, for example, they mourn in the woods and shoot each other with imaginary guns, children may imagine that they are Indians or Cowboys. This is naturalistic as the audience sees the children "pretending". Golden Pathway Annual has a series of non-naturalistic fantasies. Michael's fantasy is like a dream - the audience Michael thinks the dog's dream is James Bond, but Michael does not pretend to be James Bond

The class and culture of Blue Rimbird Hills are very different. Children often exhale, threaten or fight in the play, this is what Michael had never had before. Michael always works very well as his parents think they need to be social. The same thing can happen at the Blue Memory Mountain, but the culture is different - the entire town may be the "low" agricultural class working on the farm; the behavior of the child is in the society where they live it is normal.