Tully

Most of the day at Newbury was spent just sitting in the sofa, drinking coffee and taking it easy. Rebecca and I played some Mario Kart while Louis nursed his hangover, I think he's feeling a bit better now though, but he certainly wasn't feeling up to coming out on a 3 mile walk with the rest of the family. We took a stroll up around Hampstead Marshall, somewhere I've never been at it was a gorgeous slice of nature. Saw even more sheep, plus a mound where a castle supposedly stood many moons ago.

In the evening we somehow all decided on a movie, even after doing the whole 'infinite scrolling through Netflix' thing. Tully was our chosen film, a movie that depicts Motherhood like no other. Charlize Theron plays a disheveled husk of a woman who is just trying to keep her life together while anticipating the birth of her third child. Wary of the baby's impact on her wellbeing, her brother offers to pay for a night nanny to help lighten the load and we follow the relationship that blossoms between the mother and the nurse. It hit all the right notes for me, while it dealt with adult themes it always found a way to keep the tone light and manageable without sacrificing its message. The highlights were two montages that occur fairly early on in the film, especially one that focuses on tending to a crying baby in the middle of the night. Good stuff all round, a highly watchable indie film with something to say.