post the second: Nanny Mc Phee

*SPOILER ALERT*

Seriously. I just saw the end of the film. Saw the beginning the other day, happened upon the end tonight. I'm going to describe what happens, so avert your eyes now if you plan to watch it. Ok?

So Nanny Mc Phee, the magic nanny, is leaving the children who are no longer awful because they no longer need her. Her rule is, when they need her but don't want her she will stay, but when they want her but don't need her, she goes.

She's gliding away across a field of harvested straw and the kids realise she's gone and are all sad. Maggie Smith reminds them of the maxim above. Maggie Gyllenhall, their mother with a sweet RADA accent, appears on the lane behind Nanny McP, screaming for her to come back, come back, they might not need you but I do, I need you desperately!! She rounds the corner, in a sweet blue dress, arms waving, hair blowing out behind her, and suddenly stops to stare after the departing black figure. The children catch up with her, shouting that they do still need her, but Maggie G is staring blissfully ahead, and whispers that they don't. The camera follows her gaze, and over the brow of the hill comes a figure. He and Nanny Mc P bow to each other and he comes down the hill. His arm is in a sling, he carries his coat and a suitcase. The littlest blond boy recognises his father, presumed dead but Home From the War and shouts and starts running.

The father bends at the waist as if he's been kicked, with a visceral 'ughgh' of emotion, and runs to his son. And it's Ewan Mc Gregor! Sob! And he hugs them all, and they hold onto him as he reaches out to cup his wife's head and pull her into a kiss.

Oh my god. I'm crying now. They thought he was dead.

Gah.

It was very well done.

And I'm a total sap.

Ah well.