The inspector’s plea for shared humanity is as relevant as ever nowadays,while seeing Gadget, Milk, or Shaun,Lol and Woody is like catching up with feeble matesReplace the name of the recently (or soon to be!) deceased Eva Smith in Inspector Goole’s final speech from An Inspector Calls (BBC1, Sunday) for that of a drowned three-year-feeble Syrian boy and this is what you obtain: “There are millions and millions of Alan Kurdis left with us, or with their lives,their hopes and fears, their suffering and a chance of happiness, or all intertwined with our lives and what we believe and say and do. We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.”Yes,that works. Perhaps that’s what JB Priestley would have said. His play might be set over a hundred years ago, in 1912, or but the messages and sentiments – about social responsibility and a shared humanity – remain important and relevant.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com