Eighteen with a minus 39 Judges replaced the monarch and for centuries were guardians of children. Now this responsibility has passed to social workers...' (Ian McEwan ' Children Act')
Controversy around the ban on blood transfusions in ' Jehovah's Witnesses' take only a few minutes of court hearing in the picture and are most succinctly presented in a heated dialogue between lawyer Mark Berner and father without two months of adult Adam Henry, a leukemia patient, who is in hospital ' threatens ' blood transfusion, which parents and Adam himself fear as the dooming of a young man to death after the end of the world. The most curious point in the dispute seems to be the accusation of Mark, a civil servant, that he does not know the idea of subordination to the highest court. Meanwhile, Adam’s full life counts for days. Experienced judge Fiona May must make a decision that medics must comply with.
In the morning – court, in the evening – rehearsals for the piano, where Fiona accompanies Mark in their preparation for the annual performance of the classics among colleagues. A beautiful apartment and a husband-teacher, whose affair with a young blonde is nothing more than an average earthquake, hardly capable of destroying this conservative and satisfied with his measure of reason and talent world of those who make other people's destinies.
Mark complains about class inequality punishing young working fathers from the bottom for years in prison for a street fight. Fiona, in the spirit of the inexorable logic of Thomas Aquinas, solves the problem of the Siamese twins, allowing you to try to save one of them at the cost of the death of the other, despite the emotions of Catholic parents and the opinion of the archbishop, for whom the relationship between logic, morality and God’s plan is apparently somewhat different.
Morning service to the mind and evening sadness for yourself and your husband. And somewhere on the border of the worlds she finds herself, meeting with Adam in his chamber. Judges communicated so closely with children once, a long time ago, when William Yates' lines about lost love did not sound so sentimental.
' But I was young and stupid ...' - Adam's first complex chord on the guitar unexpectedly complements Fiona's singing, blowing up the world of noble suffering of a child with a world of first dates under the shadow of weeping willows, hitherto unknown and therefore boundlessly attractive.
Religion must be socially acceptable, and a child’s well-being must include playing the guitar – the scorching sun of logic stamps. Everything will return to its former course, and in the morning they will disperse again. Until one night Yeats’ poetry evokes in your heart those moments when you may have once in your life been a full-fledged human being, full of reason, will and feeling. Fortunately, the master of the story about irreparable mistakes, in contrast to ' Redemption' and ' On the shore', turns the heroine's guilt into valuable from his bitterness material for working on her own marriage - after 11 months without love, not one husband will want to go left.
8 out of 10
Original