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Darkest Light, The (1999) |
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Film making
which makes the everyday beautiful and the |
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mundane
interesting. This is a slice of family life on the |
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Yorkshire
Moors. It has the flavour of "Kes" and not just from |
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A brother
and sister live on a farm in Yorkshire. The brother |
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has
leukaemia. There's a scene in hospital where a roomful |
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of boys have
shaven heads. |
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The sister
makes friends with an Indian girl and the three go |
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walking on
the moors. The girls see a "big light" which |
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Matthew the
brother who hasn't seen the light interprets as a |
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vision of
the Virgin Mary (the family are Catholics). And the |
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sister
concludes "I know you're going to get better. I know it." |
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While Uma,
the Indian girl whose family are Hindu, thinks |
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something
terrible is going to happen. |
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Matthew goes
onto the moors alone looking for the Virgin |
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Their mother
is annoyed at the sister for telling Matthew he is |
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going to be
alright. Then the farm is hit by foot and mouth. |
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And walkers
coming to see 'shrine' of the Virgin Mary spread |
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The family
is tested for a bone marrow match and the sister |
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turns out to
be the only one. |
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Matthew gets
his bone marrow transplant but dies. |
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