Cathy Come Home

When we sat down to watch Cathy Come Home, for no reason other than a woman's name in the title I'm sure, I expected it to be much the same as I Love Lucy; However, it could not have been further from this. Cathy Come Home was a powerful, very emotional and realistic portrayal of what happened, and still happens, to thousands of people all over the world. The style in which it was done made you almost certain it had to be a documentary, along with the actors realistically moving performances. I feel the dialogue and story structure carried you easily through their tough journey and you really experienced all the hardships with them, the fact that it was purely based on real-life conversations making it all the more dramatic. One of the most upsetting scenes for me was when Cathy takes one of her sons to live with an older woman 'just for a little while', but you know she is never going to come back for him. I cannot imagine what it must have taken for women to leave their children like that, unable to look after themselves let alone a baby. The idea that this was indeed some peoples reality is completely unrecognizable to me, we all have it so lucky and we rarely appreciate it. The fact that Cathy and Reg started off completely happy, well off and heading for a good life together was the heartbreaking reality of it - it really was no ones fault. They weren't in to drugs, gambling, what you might expect if you seen them wandering the streets in their rags. In general, I think Cathy Come Home was although very sad, very inspirational to our generation nowadays who have adopted a very ignorant view of this type of world around us. It is this type of good, honest drama that I would be proud to provoke the public with in the future and it really did 'make me think.'