every so often i be remind of the inadvisability of rush to judgement on a single viewing . michael winterbottom wonderland be a case in point . i get very little out of this first time round and in fact my reaction be positively antagonistic while character seemingly as shallow a those in a currently popular bbc soap opera with a similar london setting and but here handle with that clumsy hand hold camera cinema verite look and which for me be always a turn off unless the material itself be brilliant the dream life of angel and la promesse for instance . i suppose it be the rave comment of so many that draw me back for a second viewing . i can see now that the film have a lot go for it . a a study of unfulfilled life it be never less than perceptive and be often quite touch and the boy at the football match and the childbirth scene and reaction to the son answerphone message and the death of a dog where our sympathy suddenly shift from the torment to the neighbour from hell . i can honestly say it be a film i have quite grow to like . where i would part company with it devotee however be in my degree of admiration . it be certainly not to be compare with the best work of mike leigh and ken loach mainly because it lack their genius for character development . unlike the character in masterworks such a secret and lie and my name be joe and those in wonderland be one dimensional represent we know all there be to know about them on their first appearance . and then there be that totally inappropriate score by michael nyman swamp scene of everyday life with a spurious pseudo classical muzak and banal lyrical line accompany by throb repeat chord . wonderland would have benefit intrinsically from be without a score . in any case it be a classic example of a film need to stand on it own foot without the prop of so call luverly music . would it survive so well without in popular esteem be the question .