First of all apologies this hasn’t been posted sooner World Cup fever has taken over the last week… it might be coming home. So I’ve neglected my blogging my bad.
So in the gaps it was time to go & see this beauty. I hadn’t seen anything much in a while & after his impassioned appearance on Graham Norton I thought well why not.
Screen 7 I think I lowered the average age, & balanced out the sexuality of the cinema. It was either full of old dears having a good cry constantly or the lgbtq community, which wasn’t surprising but I was the elephant in the room. There no problem with that though.
Trailers we had mama mia again, Whitney, adrift & something I can’t remember but it was very much this is aimed at much older people than me & I wasn’t interested in what it was.
& then the film started. To my own omission I know a bit about Oscar Wilde but not enough if that makes sense. We weren’t taught him at school in history or in my anthology which I probably still have somewhere. So I saw this more as an education to know more about it even if it was over dramatised. & I have to say I quite enjoyed it.
Everette was brilliant in all of his roles actor director writer producer probably tea maker too. He was properly received & yes it would of all been about that main character anyhow, but he owned it literally & metaphorically. He deserves his plaudits from the critics.
Fifth was okay I guess no more so a Colin Firth performance than usual. However there was this one guy in it who was his lover who I kept sitting there going who the fuck is he who is he. I know him oh god who is he. & then he said something was a bit hocus locus & I almost leapt  out of my chair & screamed it’s merlin… I didn’t, but it was the guy who plays merlin in tv. He stole the rest of the film actually he was bloody good.
It was a nice way that all of the narrations were his story’s & poems & how it all fitted. That was clever. It didn’t distract from the main story either as there was another literal story going on inside that.
It had some proper dark places it went to this isn’t for the faint hearted guy if you like your floaty watered down downtown abbey period stuff this isn’t for you. It was a bit shocking at times people in the screen did gasp at one point.
It was a little bit to period drama for me but I can give it take it.
The vicar near the end played by Tom Wilkinson was good & funny.
Overall I got a good history lesson from it & filled in some educational gaps I have but this isn’t a must see unless this is your kind of thing. Well done Rupert you should be very proud of what you have done on a bear minimal budget.