Inspector Morse - Cherubim & Seraphim
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Actor: Colin Dexter, James Grout, John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Peter WoodthorpeBrand: BFS ENT and Multimedia Limi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bfs Entertainment
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Movie Review: "Why did she do it? Because she'd seen everything and there was nothing more?"
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the most personal of all the Morse episodes, Cherubim and Seraphim reveals Morse's difficult early family life, and we meet his stepmother, his half-sister, and his half-sister's children. All is not well. His stepmother, who has dementia and is living in a nursing home, still hates him, and his niece, a young woman to whom he has been extremely close, has suddenly died. Morse offers comfort to his half-sister and her family, but when the postmortem reveals his niece's death to be a suicide, he himself is so distraught that comfort is not possible. Soon another talented young person, the hope of his immigrant family, has also committed suicide in another part of town. By week's end, three young people have committed suicide.
As Morse and Lewis investigate these separate cases, the lives of young people in the late 1980s are fully revealed--their interest in non-traditional music and art, their willingness to trust each other but not share their lives with adults, their love of concerts (especially those given secretly in abandoned buildings), and their search for meaning in a world that they see as meaningless. Presented through the keen eye of cinematographer Peter Greenhalgh, the visual details of this period and lifestyle are dramatic and memorable for the viewer, whether filmed in abandoned buildings at night, at impromptu concerts in haze and smoke, or during the day in the private rooms of the victims.
Morse (John Thaw) is powerfully effective in this episode, emphasizing the gap between his own life and that of his niece, and Sgt. Lewis (Kevin Whately), whose own children are the ages of the young people who have killed themselves, reflects the concerns of parents of teenagers everywhere. Though an episode featuring the deaths of talented teenagers may seem morbid to some viewers and melodramatic to others, the emphasis on Morse and his reactions to events broadens the viewer's knowledge of Morse's life, and makes him a more sympathetic character. And when the young people's reasons for killing themselves become clear, viewers will be as outraged as Morse at the crassness of some adults. Powerful and personal, this episode is an effective reminder of the times and of the seriousness with which young people search for answers in their confusing worlds. (4.5 stars) n Mary Whipple
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