I saw the film with my parents in Guildford around Easter 1983, and we all headed up the garden path, expecting the Choice to be between the two male leads. A day or two later, I announced that I was taking the train into Guildford to see the film again. It took them a while to scan what I'd just said. My father will never watch anything that he's seen before — except of course that he forgets that he's seen it before until three quarters of the way through, and even then the ending comes as a complete surprise. Actually I can't remember quite how this film ends, except that I know the young narrator ends up on his own, and I suspect there's a clue in the album cover to where Sophie ends up. It's at least twenty years since the last time I saw the film, and I don't imagine I'd like it so much now.
I bought the album for the main theme, which crops up as Love Theme and under various other titles on the record. In fact, it's tempting, if unfair, to say that there isn't much to the album beyond the various arrangements of this one theme.
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