hey everyone so today i want to talk about the 1983 film a pattern of roses now obviously i
will say first of all the only reason that i even paid any attention to this is because
hannah bowman carter is in this and as a lot of you will know i'm a massive massive fan of
helena but not only is she in this this is introducing helena this is hannah's first
ever film and right now on screen i will put a picture as a screen cap from the film of her
first scene this was helena's first ever televised scene how exciting is that the plot for this is
absolutely wonderful it is a bit of a ghost story and tim finds a drawing in his house like a sketch
and when he finds this he starts to see images almost what could be described as hallucinations
to the skeptic of this boy of a ghost he was about the same age as him and coincidentally happens to
have the same three initials as him and he's urged to go and find out about this boy and find out
about his life and find out who he was and while he's exploring that with his new friend rebecca
we learned quite a lot about his life as well and how the two are contrasted and i'll talk about
the past versus the present in a moment there's obviously there's a deeper message to it than
that it's not just a case of him wanting to find out who lived in that house beforehand there's
a bit of a warning in it from it's directed by lawrence gordon clark and the first thing i want
to talk about is this notion of the past versus the present with any ghost story you are going to
be digging into history and into the past this is present day in terms of being in the 80s um
but the ghost died in 1914 so that's when most of the scenes from the pastor set and i think it's
absolutely wonderful and it's handled really well most of the scenes we see from the past
we also see them in the present we'll never see a location in the past that isn't shown in
the present so the scenes inside the house we get to see how the house looked as it is when
it filmed and how it would have looked you know 60 years ago and it's such a wonderful
contest contrast to see how things change and how people's mannerisms change because i would
say it's pretty historically accurate there was nothing in it that i was looking at thinking
you know that's not right for 1914 it is you know it's pretty well done but it's just so lovely to
see one room or one scene done and then the exact same but 60 years in advance and how dramatically
things have changed but at the same time have exactly the same they are the characters of
tim and rebecca and um nettie and tom are complete opposites in the sense that they are parallels for
one another there nettie and tom are very much a past reflection on the present day tim and rebecca
and you'll see what i mean when you watch that but it's lovely and it gives this whole sense of
time changes but nothing changes at the exact same time we we may move forward technologically or
whatever but it still stays very much the same i think that's a really really really gorgeous
aspect to it scenes with the ghosts or ghosts there's only one ghost in this is done really
well because you're not it's not eerie it's not as if it's a ghostly figure it's as if you're
it's the past and the present merged in one frame and it's so bizarre and mind-blowing
and i think that's very cleverly done as well so i'm completely happy with that i've seen
many kind of documentaries and tv films because this was televised um where the ghosts or the
spirits are just too false and you kind of can't get into it but that's certainly not an issue
with this it does get quite emotional at times i did cry at one point but i won't tell you where
there's quite a deep message revealed towards the end the whole message runs right through it
but it's not personally something that i picked up on until the end and so do keep watching it
to the end to find out what that is um it also gives this whole notion of are we just passing
through life that question is raised in this quite a bit in the sense that we're living in
the present but somebody else has lived in this room where i'm in right now and somebody else
will live in this room once i leave you know so it's how important is our life and how important
are we to the surroundings in which we are in you know um so there's a lot of a lot of big questions
asked in this but it's done really really pleasantly so you don't feel like you're burdened
down with these kind of really philosophical philosophical philosophical questions cast is
brilliant obviously hannibal carter is oh she's absolutely fantastic if it wasn't for this film
who knows we may never have had mrs love it we may never have had bellatrix or enid
or you know just all her other million awesome characters so this film i owe an awful lot to um
suzanne hamilton and stewart mckenzie are fantastic in this you must must watch it for
them as well linda robson is in it she has a very tiny part and she's in it for half a minute but
it was lovely i was like oh that's linda robson that's quite interesting it's just over an hour in
length and it's about an hour and five minutes i think which is a wonderful wonderful length i know
a lot of like tv ghost documentary documentaries dramas now are kind of three parts four parts
five parts marshlands was on for i think five episodes wasn't it we've had five hours so
it's covered really well in length of time and yeah absolutely fantastic you know 17 year old
helena i absolutely love it it's brilliant please feel free to comment and let me your thoughts on a
pattern of roses it is on youtube i should have mentioned that i will put it in the below bar
first of all somebody has uploaded this to youtube so if you don't want to buy it watch it on youtube
i did pay about seven or eight pounds for this but normally it's quite a lot more i was very
lucky to get at that price brand new ever let me your thoughts and i'll see you all next time bye
you