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A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017 Directed by Michael Samuels
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"The love I feel for you, runs through me like grain through wood. I love you, Thomas, I love you. Your face, your voice, your touch, enter my mind at the least opportune moments, and I find I have no power to withstand them. No desire I want us to be together as we were at the cottage, only forever, not just a weekend. I want it to go on so long that it feels normal. I love you, Thomas.. I've always loved you. I see that now. Tell me I'm not too late."
I'm dying.... My heart is breaking into so many pieces....
*Part one was my favorite*
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This was so beautiful. Part one is a love story for the ages. Seriously, I’ve seen YouTube fan videos of it set to Lana Del Rey.
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"I want it to go on so long that it feels normal."
I had looked forward to this huge amounts, but like Mark has noted, I found it oddly cold and sticking to clichés. For a drama that aims to bring pre-decriminalisation and modern gay life together, it's perhaps odd that a heterosexual woman garners the most sympathy.
While I've not seen this often before (aside from 'Brokeback Mountain', probably), and I'm hardly going to complain when the woman grows up to be Vanessa Redgrave (!!), it feels overly heterosexualised for a series that is meant to be the flagship of BBC's Gay Britannia season. I appreciate the thought behind it, that the criminalisation of homosexuality affected more people than…
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this broke my heart in the most cruelest way possible and then brought it back together in such a rewarding way. i have so many feelings
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Man in an Orange Shirt proves how brilliant the Brits are at compelling storytelling! The duality of generational love stories unfolds during the pre and post decriminalized of homosexuality in the UK.
It is so beautifully told about different aspects of challenges being gay and finding true love in post WWII and modern London. In the former, the secrets and fear of being fount out during a period of intolerance and injustice for purely being who you are. The conflicting struggles of loving someone and being loved, but choosing to live a hetero-normative lifestyle to fit in and stay safe. The social oppression is miserably sad. In the latter, objectification of male flesh and sex dehumanizes gay identity, making it…
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the gay man in an orange shirt and the gays in the other shirts will have to fund my next therapy
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When the novelist Patrick Gale's mother discovered that the man she had been married to led a secret life, the author was naturally compelled to tell the story. It all started when his mother found a secret hoard of love letters in her husband's desk written, not by a former girlfriend, but by the best man at his wedding.
It's that revelation that imbues Man in an Orange Shirt with the understandably yet often overlooked crucial truth that this is a tragedy for all. Prior to it, the pain and repression had solely been the domain of the two former army officers Michael and Thomas (Oliver Jackson-Cohen and James McArdle) whose love could not be condoned by society, but Gale…
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what if vintage gays couldn’t be together? what if modern gays couldn’t commit? makes you think
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