A Comparison (synthesis week #5)

The Children's Hour the play and the film are two distinctly different pieces. A play has to use space sparingly, whereas a film is far less restricted by this space. In the play our characters are left to imagination, in the film these characters are decided for the viewer. What makes this important is that in order to respond to the 1961 film version appropriately, the viewer needs to know its subject. The innuendos of the play are far less regarded than the innuendos of the in the film by virtue of the visual representation. A written play leaves much to dialogue and it is the actors goal to highlight and omit according to the dialogue. The suicides also appear far differently, purely for cinematic response.