This film is a unique story of a young girl Lynda (Emily Lloyd)
living in a seaside town after the second world war. Although this doesn’t
sound all that interesting you have to get to know Lynda. She is not your
typical compliant teenager. She swears a lot and sleeps with a man her father
knows.
She, however, tries to make a go of her life and on finding
herself pregnant she gets and tries to keep her job as a waitress, until her
father arrives and not seeing that his daughter has actually started to grow up
and treats her like the old teenager she was. This unfortunately has a negative
effect on Lynda and she reverts back to her old ways and loses her job.
I can see only one reason why the father had to interfere, it as I
see it only to strengthen Lynda’s character in the long run. It is a shame the
film did this though Lynda looked like she was doing well and even mentioning
to her father that she needed her job. Taking responsibility of the situation
she found herself in.
Lynda’s father Hubert (Geoffrey Hutchings) has lost his wife and
mother to Lynda so he is a single father. At the time after the war it would
have been very difficult for a single father. This may be why Lynda turned out
the way she did or why her father interfered when there was no need to.
This is a very interesting film and showing single parenthood from
the father’s point of view is pure genius, however misguided he was in the end.
If you can get passed all the swearing and sleeping around you
will find a clever film which is well acted and original. Back then, when it
was first released, this was considered controversial, because of the nature of
the film’s contents. However, it showed a realistic point of view and develops
upon that. It was somewhat unheard of, when a single mother has a baby, she
gets to keep it, but Lynda is strong enough to, and doesn’t care what other
people think. This is shown when she walks across a sports ground boldly
pushing the pram.
Films nowadays push even further boundaries so if this film was
released now very few people would give the storyline a second thought.
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