Cine TV Contest #93 - Sealed With A Loving Kiss

Meanwhile, modernity begins to make its entrance in England, with the arrival of POP and POP ROCK music “The Bee Gees and Crosby Still Nash & Young” and the fashion of the time. Daniel, influenced by this modernity, decides to take Violone lessons “specifically “The Double Bass”” and form a band with his friends -that in real life, in the film you only see a scene of him with “the double bass”-. As music becomes an important part of his life, Daniel realises that Melody shares his passion for music “she learns to play the recorder”, and decides to reach out to her through their shared love of music.

Despite opposition from his parents and teachers, Daniel and Melody begin to spend time together. However, their platonic love is threatened by societal pressure and his parents' lack of understanding, despite England's openness to modernity at the time. As the story progresses, Daniel and Melody struggle to keep their love alive in the midst of modernity and social pressure.

At the same time, other stories are woven in that show “social freedoms”, such as vices, the use of long hair for men and tattooing for women, things that were unimaginable years ago.

At the time I literally heard the film, I was eight years old. I say “heard” because by then I was in a school for the visually impaired. Following the “advances in medical technology at the time” operations, I enjoyed the film two years later, back in 1973. We didn't have colour TV, but seeing and feeling it in monochrome was the best.

It turned out that, just as I had imagined two years earlier, a curious character in a supporting role identified with my nerdy, visionary and adventurous behaviour. He was precisely the boy who experimented with making explosives that never worked, but at the end of the film, his dream is realised with an explosion that renders Daniel's mother's car unusable…