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Release Date: 07 September, 2004 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: |
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A Perfect Film About Western Society, Not Just British
I absolutely adored this movie. The score is haunting and powerful, the young cast of now well known stars give wonderful performances and it is well written. It shows you not the protagnoist's actual steps to becoming a Russian spy (you know from the early, opening scenes that Bennett now an old man is a traitor to his country), but rather you get the foundation, the beginnings of his desire to want something else. This is especially evident in the last lines. It was one of those movies that I truly wished went on much longer even though it is of average length. I felt invested in Guy, Judd and Harcourt and it does end quickly and leaves you're imagination open to what may have happened to the others especially Harcourt.
A lot of people have said that you have to be British to understand this movie or have gone to a boarding style school like this. Well being American I had no problem connecting with the film. In all honesty it reminded me of something I heard once in a documentary about kids who go on shooting rampages in their schools have gone through similiar bullying and need to fit into norms so that they feel if they don't do well one year or get the "god" position in school then the next year it will be the same thing and the same thing. So if you're an outcast in school you are an outcast forever. I think you can draw parallels between other issues facing young people aside from just sexuality.
It is a beautiful, touching, thought provoking even now film.
Tragic story of a self loathing GAY COMMIE
I saw this movie, expecting to see a romance about young love in an British upper class boarding school? Forget the hype---this is not a positive 'gay' movie.
What is there about this play that is especially positive for gays? Let's see...you're wealthy, upper class, effete, spoiled brat. And because your gay sensibilities are bruised, you go COMMIE? And spy for the butcher STALIN? Then after you get caught, you end up alone, in exile in the puritanical repressive Soviet Union, drinking yourself to death?
Anyone that understands the real history of Guy Burgess will wonder why a play and movie was made about him.
Plenty of gay men face the same sort of pressures, but does that justify becoming traitors and communists? HUH? I can't think of anything that causes more homophobia in the world then the degenerate hypocritical immorality of the British Aristocracy. Do we really need another story about gay aristocrats to fan the flames? And a commie traitor to boot?
Hmmmmm? Do I recommend this movie? Well...the actors in the movie ARE pretty. But the characters and the story full of pathos and sadness, that I really doubt you'll enjoy it.
I'd opt out of this movie, and go for Beautiful Thing, about 2 working class gay boys coming out. They face all the same pressures and repression, don't succumb to hatred and loathing, and find strength in each other.
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