For the first time I watched the British film in 2004 Vera Drake which is directed by Mike Leigh, I did not finish it because the kindness of middle age woman with smiley face seems to be annoying. With paying no attention to Vera's happy and decent world, I have missed many things in the film as I stop watching it. As researching for journal assignment for British Cinema, I had decided to watch it closely one more time. Since the scene of police arriving at Vera's house for the issue of illegal abortion, the film magically makes me stay with it while the feeling toward the main character as she is my elder relative who emotionally faces problem is created which being a part of her family makes me finished up the film.
Vera Drake is a story of a working class woman in London who represents the conflict between decent values and social mores in 1950 under the issue of abortion which also links to the class structure in British society. There are many people both back then......
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