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Completely disagree. What did you find hamfisted about it?

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Well, you're entitled to disagree. It seemed to me that having chosen to film the thing in B&W, he'd better not break that convention and introduce colour suddenly without a damn good reason. Using colour so jarringly to ram home the message that this individual child was one tragedy in a whole avalanche of personal tragedies just seemed ham-fisted to me. The movie is devastating enough; the tragedies on both a personal and a historical scale are evident to any awake viewer already. I just don't think the colour switch was necessary. He over-egged the pudding, if you like, and in so doing he insulted the audience's intelligence to some extent.


For the record, I would count the Wizard of Oz as a better use of a colour/B&W switch.