Christopher and His Kind
Dec. 2nd, 2011 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kasihyaAaaaagh. Stupid clip I found on tumblr made it seem like it would be something fun to watch on a Friday night.
WRONG.
I really liked it and will probably watch it again when my internet connection is better. But aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh I want to give Heinz an enormous hug even if he was blatantly trying to get the hell out of Berlin.
I wasn't too fond of some parts in the beginning, and in particular I was confused by Christopher's relationship with Caspar because I didn't realize they had an ongoing thing until Christopher got upset at him near the train tracks. But there were a couple of wonderful scenes. The conversation where Jean tells him that Bobby left her, and that she's pregnant but going to get an abortion ... I know that it probably has to do with the fact that you just didn't talk about that sort of thing openly back then, but the not-talking about it and the whole montage that followed was awful.
Duuuuuude. Wikipedia has informed me that Isherwood also wrote A Single Man, which is also on my gay-movie watch list. God I'm dumb, watching movies of books and stuff. Whatever. AGH I'm going to go have feelings now.
Also as a side note, there were exactly two points in the movie where I remembered 'Oh yeah, that's Matt Smith playing Christopher': once at the beginning, and once towards the end. That's it. It was good.
WRONG.
I really liked it and will probably watch it again when my internet connection is better. But aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh I want to give Heinz an enormous hug even if he was blatantly trying to get the hell out of Berlin.
I wasn't too fond of some parts in the beginning, and in particular I was confused by Christopher's relationship with Caspar because I didn't realize they had an ongoing thing until Christopher got upset at him near the train tracks. But there were a couple of wonderful scenes. The conversation where Jean tells him that Bobby left her, and that she's pregnant but going to get an abortion ... I know that it probably has to do with the fact that you just didn't talk about that sort of thing openly back then, but the not-talking about it and the whole montage that followed was awful.
Duuuuuude. Wikipedia has informed me that Isherwood also wrote A Single Man, which is also on my gay-movie watch list. God I'm dumb, watching movies of books and stuff. Whatever. AGH I'm going to go have feelings now.
Also as a side note, there were exactly two points in the movie where I remembered 'Oh yeah, that's Matt Smith playing Christopher': once at the beginning, and once towards the end. That's it. It was good.
