Journey of Eros

August 10, 2007

Beautiful Thing

Filed under: Film

 

Cody, from the latest animated film of Sony Pictures, says "I hate it when the trailers give away the ending" or something like that (Don’t hate me if I got the character wrong). This blogger hates it when he’s about to see the ending and his computer hangs and he can’t find it to work after rebooting.

His immediate recourse is the Internet which provides him the textual detail of the ending. He thinks Wikipedia is a kiss-ass info provider, since he no longer have to use a search engine that will direct him to myriad sites, that often provide inadequate info.

He reads this there: "The movie ends with the two boys slow-dancing in the courtyard of their council flats to the tune of the Cass Elliot classic, Dream a Little Dream of Me, while a guarding Sandra dances defiantly at their side with Leah, as the local residents look on, some of them shocked, some of them enjoying the moment themselves."

The scene may ring a bell to you if you happened to watch "Beautiful Thing," directed by Hettie MacDonald, which tells about the tender love story of Jaime and Ste, two high school students, that began during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together.

Love scenes are minimal and except for the some kissing scenes, the movie could pass as R-13 if shown here in the Philippines.






















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