Day: January 4, 2016

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Exhibition Review

Museum of London – The Crime Museum Uncovered

This temporary exhibition at the Museum of London give visitors the opportunity to see some of the exhibits held on in the Crime Museum which is not normally open to the public. It explains some of the history of capital punishment and crimes. It includes some information and evidence from famous crimes such as the great train robbery and the Krays.  However it may be useful if it included a bit more background to help those who aren’t familiar with all the events covered in the exhibition.

It also includes a little shop at the end with exhibition souvenirs for sale.

 

7/10

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Danish Girl, The (2016)

Director – Tom Hooper

Staring – Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard

The Danish Girl is inspired around the true story of married Danish Artists Einer and Gerder Wegener in the 1920s.  Following Einer standing in as a female model for his wife, he begins to live his life as a woman Lili Elbe and eventually undergoing one of the first attempts of male to female gender reassignment surgery.

 

7/10

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Joy (2016)

Director – David O Russell

Staring – Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper.

Joy is based on a true story of a divorce mother who was determined to realise her dreams of seeing her inventions becoming successful.  It is a domestic family drama with 4 generations of a family living together, in any spare bit of space in a small house.  As a child Joy was always inventing things but initially in adulthood she spends her time looking after her family.  During this time she sees a problem with normal mops and invents a better type of mop.  The story then follow how she gets funding, through to selling them on QVC and how she progresses in the future.

It was an interesting story and I wasn’t familiar with the story of Joy Mangano before and it made me want to find out more about the story behind the film.

7/10