Right from the start, there is no doubt where we are.
Academic research estimates that 35,000 women were forced into this service.
Around 1,600 women and 6,000 babies are believed to have died behind the convents walls.
Cillian Murphy in ‘Small Things Like These’Shane O’Connor
Nobody apparently asked why.
The last of these institutions closed only in 1996.
When we encounter him, he is working even longer hours than usual to meet his orders before Christmas.
The story turns on a discovery Bill makes in the convent coal shed.
We glimpse him through doorways in their cramped terrace house, slumped with exhaustion.
but weighted differently, squeezing the hope of the Christmas story out of it.
Hes cracking at every seam.
You cant believe he runs a business.
How much to show?
That is the flexible beauty of the minds eye.
So hard to find places for them all!
The air hangs heavy with threat.
Bills lips tremble, but he cannot speak.
Those crystalline descriptions simply dont work in the same way when given gray, soggy substance on screen.
