Life Is Short is an as-needed series documenting the films we just couldn't make it through. We like to refer to these movies as "Damsels in Distress." Previous entries can be found here.
We didn't try very hard on this one. It's a musical -- of a sort -- and so the odds were not good. IMDb capsulizes the plot:
London Road documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
The filmmaker, Rufus Norris, worked with a script by Alecky Blythe, who compiled actual quotes from residents and reworked it into documentary-style chronicle, with many of the quotes -- including by news readers -- sung awkwardly. The first half hour was mainly townsfolk repeatedly expressing fear about going out on the streets. I don't know why so many old men feared for their lives because a maniac was killing young female prostitutes, but then I didn't stick around long enough to find out.
Title: LONDON ROAD
Running Time: 92 MIN
Elapsed Time at Plug Pull: 29 MIN
Portion Watched: 32%
My Age at Time of Viewing: 54 YRS, 5 MOS.
Average Male American Lifespan: 76.4 YRS.
Watched/Did Instead: Read a James Baldwin essay
Odds of Re-viewing This Title: 50-to-1.
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