Talk:The Bed-Sitting Room

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Article says film came out in 1970, it's in 1969 category, IMDB says 1969 --Macarion 19:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Like Beckett..."

Who is the critic that memorably said this? In what paper?

[edit] War duration

"The play is set in a post-apocalyptic London, nine months after World War III, which lasted for three minutes and forty-seven second" ... "The film is set on the third or fourth anniversary of a war which lasted two hours and twenty-eight minutes." - which is it? --McGeddon 15:22, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I've never read the play, seen the play, or seen the film, but can easily imagine that it takes place at a single time that's both (a) the third or fourth anniversary of war that wasn't a world war, and also (b) nine months after a world war. (Not that the rest of the description of the play seems to make it require internal consistency such as this.) -- Hoary 05:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I've similarly not seen either, but it is trivial to see from any number of film adaptations that setting, timing, timeline, etc can be different than an original book or play. Those are not contradictoray statements since one is clearly about the play and the other is clearly about the film. --jzp 18:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Is it possible that, given the absurdist nature of this play and film, the time scale mistakes are deliberate and intentional, intended to provide some sense of the disorientation and psychological damage that would ensue amongst the survivors of a bona fide nuclear holocaust?

Calibanu 07:36, 14 September 2007 (UTC) User Calibanu 19.24, 14 September 2007 NZST