Kit Hesketh-Harvey (1957–2023)
Autore di Maurice [1987 film]
Opere di Kit Hesketh-Harvey
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hesketh-Harvey, Kit
- Nome legale
- Hesketh-Harvey, Christopher John
- Data di nascita
- 1957-04-30
- Data di morte
- 2023-02-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Zomba, Malawi (as Nyasaland)
- Istruzione
- Canterbury Cathedral
Tonbridge School, Kent
Cambridge University (Clare College|English literature) - Attività lavorative
- scriptwriter
performer - Relazioni
- Rabett, Catherine (wife|separated|2021|since divorced)
Sands, Sarah (sister)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 126
- Popolarità
- #159,216
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 7
This was a fairly brave film to make in the 1980s, when public sentiment towards male homosexuality had turned negative again in the wake of the AIDs crisis.
So there are many things to commend. However, for me there are two glaring problems. And I cannot say whether these arise from the film or the original text. The first is that the relationship between Maurice and Scudder seems so unlikely. Not because it is between two men but because they are so incompatible in every way except lust. Scudder is portrayed as a nasty amoral little man, the very opposite of Maurice.
Secondly, although the film ends romantically with Maurice and Scudder holed up in the boathouse making love by firelight, a none too subtle contrast with the (presumed) unsatisfactory marriage of Durham and Anne, that totally avoid the questions which Duham has posed earlier in the film – how are two men in such a relationship to actually live together in that world, a world which has rejected them socially and legally? Maurice proclaims that he is an outlaw, and that is precisely what he is getting into; but the implications of that are never shown. The problems would be compounded by the incompatibility already mentioned. It's difficult to avoid comparisons with the ending of the same team's film of Forster's 'A Room With A View', where a couple also defy convention – but where the same societal problems will never arise in such an overwhelming way, especially as the male hero of that is far less dependent anyway on society's approval for practical things like money. Maybe at the end of the day the difference is the point; but it would have been braver still to have confronted these issues head on.… (altro)