A poetic story of love and loss

The movie Song of Lunch is a poem-based drama. It was released in 2010 by Niall MacCormick. In 2009, Christopher Reid published the poem The Song of Lunch. This film is a dramatic remake of that poem. 

The poem is 23 stanzas long and was transformed into a 50-minute film. The film is an act of what’s going on in the poem. The man goes on his lunch break and meets an old friend. 

This film shows how fast time can truly pass, but also shows the sad desperation of how slow the day goes when you feel unhappy. The man finds joy in seeing his old fling but his day feels so dragged out through this. Life is shown as a prison when working on just to live, but when he finally isn’t locked at his desk, he is free. 

The film is longer than the poem, but isn’t going word for word. The film is based on the poem but is adapted to fit the film. 

Something that caught my attention was the cast. The two main roles are the man and his old fling, played by Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. This film isn’t their first time working together. They were both in the movie trilogy Harry Potter based on the Harry Potter books. They both played teachers of Hogwarts.  

This film was pretty good. I feel the poem had a good base to go off which helped with the overall going of the film. The cast was well chosen as I feel they had more chemistry because they are already familiar and friends with each other. If I were to rate this film I would give it 7.5 out of 10 and would recommend it to anyone who’s into dramatic literature.