during filming and be vanessa redgrave take mogadon . it be like she be read from an autocue . i have see more life in a wooden spoon . or perhaps that be all part of the character . whatever and it be very very annoy and i keep want to shake the screen to hurry her up . i read the book a long time ago and do not like much about it except that septimus descent into madness be very well do but i do not think rupert graf show this very well and his acting be all on the surface . the connection between his life and clarissa be not very well do either but i suspect the attempt be to show the sacrifice soldier make to enable people like clarissa to continue their vapid life . the film be very bitty and have no real unity to it . hat it .