I went along to see this film with a girl yesterday. It was good although possibly slightly different from the other films I've seen in the cinema in recent years.
The story revolves around an English (subject and nationality) professor at a Californian university in the early 1960s. His lover dies in a car crash and his world falls apart. The greatest sadness is that he is homosexual and society will not accept his lifestyle.
Colin Firth is great as the professor, disabled by grief, carefully planning and rehearsing his suicide. The film looks great and has a solid emotional impact. The harshness of society in '60s America is clear although I guess gay people in some places probably still need to live like that. In the end the film is probably uplifting and definitely worth seeing.
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