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sasha_featherMaurice - 1987 - James Wibly, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves
I absolutely loved this movie that is based on the EM Forster novel of the same name. Maurice (pronounced "Morris") is a privileged young man in England in 1910-1912. He attends Cambridge, and there falls in love with Clive (Hugh Grant). But Clive insists that their love must be platonic only. Eventually Clive calls the relationship off and gets married; the two stay friends, mostly. Later Maurice falls in love with Alec Scudder (Graves), a groundskeeper at Clive's estate. It has a *happy ending*! which was very important to Forster. He perceptively knew that a happy ending would be controversial, and had this novel published after his death.
There is some homophobia shown in the film-- one of their friends gets arrested and sentenced to prison, for example. Overall, what is striking to me, is that the society isn't very different than today's society, more than 100 years on. For example, there are still police targeting gay men for having sex in parks (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/project-marie-charges-dropped-1.4379087).
But the homophobia shown in the film is overshadowed by the love and acceptance we get to see. Which is so hugely important.
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I absolutely loved this movie that is based on the EM Forster novel of the same name. Maurice (pronounced "Morris") is a privileged young man in England in 1910-1912. He attends Cambridge, and there falls in love with Clive (Hugh Grant). But Clive insists that their love must be platonic only. Eventually Clive calls the relationship off and gets married; the two stay friends, mostly. Later Maurice falls in love with Alec Scudder (Graves), a groundskeeper at Clive's estate. It has a *happy ending*! which was very important to Forster. He perceptively knew that a happy ending would be controversial, and had this novel published after his death.
There is some homophobia shown in the film-- one of their friends gets arrested and sentenced to prison, for example. Overall, what is striking to me, is that the society isn't very different than today's society, more than 100 years on. For example, there are still police targeting gay men for having sex in parks (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/project-marie-charges-dropped-1.4379087).
But the homophobia shown in the film is overshadowed by the love and acceptance we get to see. Which is so hugely important.
Content notes: nudity
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Date: 2018-02-04 10:42 pm (UTC)Also, Rupert Graves was so frickin' adorable when he was young. Better than most of the bandom folks in the "cute" department.
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Date: 2018-02-05 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-12 05:20 am (UTC)Such a good movie. I'm glad it aged okay, too.
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Date: 2018-02-28 11:56 pm (UTC)