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Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things

Michael Sheen is enchanting camp with fat and powder, David Tennant dyed his hair and ginger hair named Ginger, good lady Emily Mortimer smoky makeup to cover up innocence, James Mcavoy is sensitive, trembling and fragile... The actors in this film are a group of Bright Young People, plus All the old goblins such as Peter O'toole, Simon McBurney, Jim Broadbent and others have gone to the phonograph to play tickets.

Only Stephen Fry, who was already fascinated by the upper-class social circle, could invite such a group of cast members to take the audience with him to peep the glitz and glamour of the London social circle in the 1920s from a paparazzi-like perspective.

He is very clever and somewhat "exquisitely naughty", but after all, he dare not dig deep into the intention of criticizing the original work. Irony is there, but at best it is self-deprecating sarcasm. People are in the circle and can't help themselves. Fry, who has a close personal relationship with the upper class, must be somewhat protective of his shortcomings when he shoots this film, and he can't help it.


Three and a half stars, plus half a star for Fry's directorial debut.

Interesting sketches are good subjects for understanding the background of the British literary and art circles before the war.

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  • Simon Balcairn: [Telling his fake news story] The most shocking orgy since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah rocked society last night.

    Typist: Hold the presses, get down to compositing. Now.

    Simon Balcairn: The vulgar evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape, proudly revealed that her angels were no more than underage adornments on sale to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, tears coursing down her face, the honorable Agatha... , whose repulsive liason with the Prime Minister shocked the nation this week, bewailed her, quote: "Ruined, bogus, vapid, bogus, and worthless life," unquote.

    [pause]

    Simon Balcairn: Yes, two boguses. Lady Maitland, shrieking of her terrible dependence upon cocaine powder, threw off her Schiaparelli ball gown and stood naked upon the dance floor, an example quickly followed by old and young alike until only the servants remained clothed. And grotesquely hairy Archie Schwert, swinging naked from the chandelier, screamed that all his money derived from prostitution and the opium trade. Lady Maitland's son Miles howled and howled and confessed to an intimate beastliness involving five guardsmen of the royal household, two marines, and a brick layer from Hattersfield. Nina Blount... Nina Blount grasped her stomach, screamed she was a whore, and misquoted several lines of Lady MacBeth whilst Adam Fenwick-Symes cried on heaven to bear witness to his talentless penury and hopeless illiteracy.

  • Simon Balcairn: [Telling his fake news story] Never, never, never have such scenes been witnessed in high society, that uneasy alliance between Bright Young Things and old survivors. Perhaps this was the defining moment of our epoch of speed and syncopation. This so-called 20th century of angst, neurosis and panic. Reader be glad that you have nothing to do with this world. Its glamour is a delusion, its speed a snare, its music a scream of fear. Faster and faster they swirl, sickening themselves with every turn. The faster the ride, the greater the nausea, the terror, and the shame.

    [pause]

    Simon Balcairn: Stop. Yes, that's it. Good night.

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