Just saw it yesterday. 5:30 hours in a row. Ugh! But it was worth it. I couldn´t stop. First I was a bit confused - i missed Benedicts Cheekbones :-)
But it´s getting better and better. I loved the story and his feelings. What an actor. In every role he is so .....lost words......incredible and REAL.
But I also think that Rebecca Hall would have deserved an nomination. Most of the time I wished that Christopher would choose her again :-)

sj4iy wrote:

As much as I liked him in this, I think Rebecca Hall deserved the nomination more.

I think they both would have deserved it. I think it's one of his best performances although it may be less spectacular than Sherlock or Khan. There are so many small gestures, the whole physical presence, the way he communicates his feelings not in words but in looks and facial expressions. 

I did some screenshots for my tumblr blog. I especially loved these as they are a wonderful example for Susanna White's excellent work:

I bought the DVD yesterday and I love it. I hadn't watched it before when it was on tv. He should get the Emmy for his pperformance. I want to read the books next but I still need  to finish reading all ACD Sherlock stories first x

Well observed, Susi.  
I rewatched Parade's End lately and my view has changed a bit.
I think I’m happy with how it ended, but I still feel so immensely sad for Sylvia because her figure is actually incredibly tragic. On the one hand, she did bring it upon herself by being unfaithful but on the other hand, I think she really loved Christopher. She just didn’t realize it at all at the beginning of their marriage, was too immature to understand it and as a result made a terrible mistake. That's how I see it. Sylvia really wanted to understand her husband but she just couldn't get emotionally close to him. 
However, Parade's End has a happy ending, it turned out for the best for Christopher as he ended up being happy with Valentine so I won't complain. 
But I still have a bit of an unsettled feeling in my stomach, particularly since the tree was cut down. Why would Sylvia be so cruel. Disregarding all the events in the past that happened, I think this was the moment when she truly lost him although she needed him the most. And that makes her a real tragic character. Rebecca Hall did also a great job in portraying her.
 

I think you can guess that even film's Rebecca, although less obviously "evil" than her literarary alter ego, would never be happy with Tietjens nor give him any happiness. The very moment he would fell for her again, she would stop to admire him and would begin to torment him again. A kind of vicious circle. She wants him and she is obsessed with him, because he is the only man who is able to resist her. Let's don't forget that in France, while she was doing her ah-so-sincere-and-moving-speech and he believed her for a moment, she knew all the time that Perowne was just about to come to her room. It was yet another cruel joke and she orchestrated it only to humiliate him once more (although she was so convincing that even I was fooled when I was first watching the episode). 

Cool postcards!

I have Parade's End now.  Just have to find the time to watch it.  Maybe I'll binge it on my next kidless weekend. 

Girls, this is entirely for "film and novel" (see thread start), film discussion is here   

http://sherlock.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=324&p=1

Last edited by Harriet (March 13, 2014 8:20 pm)

Then you might like to have a look at start #1 here:

"Ok, so I know there is already a Parad'es End topic here... but since it is a general one, I thought it would be nice to have another one, dedicated specifically to a discussion and analysis of the series and the novels: I found both so stimulating and I would really love to share a further discussion with you."

Well, forgive me for not reading the entirety of every thread I post in. At least I bothered to see if we already had a thread related to the movie rather than opening the third or fourth one. If the mods have a problem with this, they're free to move my post(s) or PM me to move it. Otherwise I'd like to ask you to please exercise a bit of leniency on all these unwritten rules. I'll try to pay more attention next time.