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if somebody has wandered away. i out if somebody has wandered away. i mean, it sounds crazy. but it is actually really sensible. if you can measure and work out when somebody is most likely to fall, perhaps if somebody is getting up or somebody is likely to have a stroke, all of these things can be measured, because there are signals, and it just means it is about the health service moving more towards prevention. instead of emergency. that has to be the key to it, the health service does have to shift. this is part ofjeremy hunt's ten year plan, when the new money was announced. the idea that you have gadgets which will tell you what is coming up along the way so that you can coming up along the way so that you ca n p reve nt coming up along the way so that you can prevent it, up until now, the nhs has tended to treat things. but there is a gadget here, you could put it into your telephone, it measures your heartbeat, your blood pressure and so on. if you are going to have a stroke it can warn you beforehand, or rekha to tack on the foret happens and you can get help. —— ora heart
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foret happens and you can get help. —— or a heart attack before it happens. and it is doing more than saving money, in some cases it would allow all the people to live more independently. —— older people. it takes the pressure off healthcare workers, because if there is an issue you can say, divert, go to mrs so—and—so. issue you can say, divert, go to mrs so-and-so. it could be the future of the health service. let's turn to the health service. let's turn to the independent, finally, with football. lionel messi boughs out of the world cup. a dejected lionel messi yesterday after france beat argentina 4—3, eliminating them from the tournament. i think you know the most about football? well, nigel loves talking about it, as you know. i don't know why he's not on match of the day. he is out, so is portugal. so it is the end of lionel messi and ronaldo, two of the world's best footballers. great games tonight, england is coming up. lam sure games tonight, england is coming up. i am sure you will both be watching. i will watch england!|j
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i am sure you will both be watching. i will watch england! i am glad to hear it, it is exciting. 0k... thank you both very much. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, nigel and jo. goodbye. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what do we have this week? we have the sequel to
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sicario, sicario 2: soldado, leave no trace, the new film from debra granik. and shailene woodley lost at sea in adrift. sicario 2. were you a fan of the original? not quite. i am surprised. emily blunt was brilliant. i do like her. she is not back this time. in this sequel, the original starred emily blunt. they are all gone. now, we have a sequel in the age in which it turns out that trafficking people is more profitable than trafficking drugs, the authorities in america become alarmed to find out that they think that isis terrorists are coming into america across the mexican border. so, josh brolin basically enlists
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benicio del toro's lawyer turned hit man to run a covert operation to kidnap the daughter of a cartel owner and make it look like it was one of the other cartels to start a war, which will make them easier to fight. here is a clip. no rules this time. turning you loose. how loose? carlos reyes. how's that for loose? it's your chance to get even for your family. are you going to help us start a war? with who? everyone. it is an odd film.
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on one hand, it plays into a bunch of very contemporary paranoias, the mexican border. it is the us—mexico border and so topical. on the one hand, it exploits those fears and later on it undermines them. as with the first sicario, no one comes out of it well, it is all shades of grey and the operation is murky. it does not work out exactly as they expect it to. on the plus side, it has some pretty well done nail—biting sequences. i have to say, nothing to match the extraordinary traffic jam sequence from the first sicario. it is quite an interesting story, not one we have not seen before and later on, there is a point when having started off being bleak and gritty, it's suddenly gets into this area of dramatic contrivance that made
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me go, "oh, come on!" i do not think i was the only one to do that. i really did miss the presence of emily blunt. watching the first film, you realise how much of what you are watching was mediated through the eyes of her character, and it gave you a good way into the story. i think that is missing this time. the makers have talked about this as being a stand—alone film and i think that is the best way to appreciate it. it is a good, well made, gritty, potentially controversial, border thriller, but as a sequel to sicario, you cannot help but go yeah, but it is not as good as sicario. if you look at it as a stand—alone, it is fine, it has some good moments but falls apart at the end. they should have made it a stand—alone movie. i think that would have helped. leave no trace — i have not seen it, but it looks gripping, fascinating, a lot of those things.
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if this is not in my top ten at the end of the year, i will be completely stunned. it is made by debra granik. it is the story of a father and teenage daughter living off the grid, under the radar in the forests outside portland in oregon. they have lived this kind of survivalist existence, he is a veteran with some ptsd. the authorities turn up and find them and of course when the authorities find them, they take them back into "civilisation" and they are forced to re—enter the world. the thing that is really brilliant about this film, firstly, it is a film in which it is not to do with dialogue, it is to do with action, the ways that people stand, the gestures, the looks, it is not about explaining the plot. but what really happens is that as the father and daughter are brought back into the ordinary modern world, their responses to it are different. he is very, very against it, she starts to find some sense of kinship and it is interesting, both the director and the writer of the novel that it is based on
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have both cited the tempest in the background. it is about generational divides, that thing between town and country and, to some extent, but it is much more about the story of the central character, played absolutely brilliantly by thomasin mckenzie discovering your own identity, discovering that her identity is hers rather than as a part of a unit, which has been off grid with her and her father. that is fascinating. you will love it. it isjust wonderful, brilliant use of music, a couple of performances of live songs, that bit in winter's bone, you will be reminded of it. you know things will go very bad. winter's bone brought us the great jennifer lawrence of course. here, we have thomasin mckenzie, who has made movies before, but i was not aware of her. she is fantastic. she combines the technical brilliance of a young
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jennifer lawrence with the openness of david bradley from kes. it is remarkable, i cannot say enough good things. your third choice this week, on the oceans. adrift, based on a true story, the young couple are played by shailene woodley and sam clafin. they have to take a boat from a to b, they set out and everything looks fine and then the weather turns very bad. here is a clip. hey! let the sheet go! what? let the sheet go now! 0k. help.
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take it! screaming. help me! ifeel the same. it is hard to watch. i have seen far too much of the exerts of the film of the actual terrible moments. that reminds me of the sequence in ridley scott's white squall. the story starts after the wreck and then it goes between the story of her and his survival on the boat and then flashing back to how they got there. there have been comparisons with the robert redford film,
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all is lost, however, i thought, there is a film starring reese witherspoon called wild. i loved wild! i you loved that, you'll love this. at the heart of it, there is a story of a young woman finding herself whilst battling against the elements. one is on land, one is on sea. on the surface of it, there is very little comparison, but tonally, i thought they were quite similar. i do find stories about being lost at sea utterly terrifying. it really gets under my skin. i thought shailene woodley was very good. there is a twist in it. not everyone will love it. but i thought it was well done. if you liked wild, you'll like this. if we can bear the shipwreck scenes. film of the week... it is still lek and the dogs. it is based on a play which is based on a real—life story of a young child left in moscow who lived
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with dogs on the streets of moscow. it is a wonderful film by andrew kotting and you will have to seek this work out, but please do, he is a talent that needs to be found by everyone. he is a reason to celebrate film—making in this country. dvd this week, the shape of water. i do not know what else to say about it, but the fourth time round, it looked even better. i just loved it. it is pretty good! and it is just beautiful to look at. i loved the design, the performances. it's quirky. but there are elements that are very beautiful. i love the film so much that i was quoted in private eye.
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i have hit peak critic. mark, you can retire on that note. thank you very much. come back next week. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello there. nights are getting warmer and more humid across southern parts of england. here we have the chance of getting some rain and thunderstorms. it will be dry, clear skies on the whole. some cloud
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approaching the north—west. signs of approaching the north—west. signs of a few storms arriving by the morning across the channel islands and into devon and cornwall. you can see the temperature is pretty high across southern areas. some storms are likely across the south—west of england. the channel islands perhaps in the south wales, may be drifting a little further north and east by the evening. a band of cloud approaching northern ireland, maybe bringing a few spots of rain. elsewhere, it will be another dry and sunny day, hot as well. 30 degrees across parts. we will keep those temperatures into monday and tuesday. cooler and fresher for the north. still a chance of one of two thunderstorms through the english channel affecting the far south—west, but on the whole, still dry and sunny. this is bbc news.
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