Colin Firth's college professor lives a refined and elegant life, but he is unhappy, often living in memories of the past - his boyfriend died in a car accident a few years ago, and he has been depressed ever since. He has a close friend, Julian Moore, who also lives in memory, and he also has a student who seems to be interested in him, the character played by Holt.
The fact of the film is basically that Faith's depression is interspersed with past clips of him and his boyfriend. In fact, this is a story that can be told in one sentence. What Ford is doing is to put this story on. He got his custom suit, put on the wooden floor, added ambiguous eyes, ok, done! The video is done!
All of Colin Firth's tastes in the film have Ford's shadow, and anyone who knows a little about the famous designer's style knows that, so, driven by inertia, he showed his personal taste on the film: A well-designed wooden house - this is Firth's home in the film, vinyl records - which Firth listens to a lot in the film, shiny leather shoes and a rather fitted suit - which Ford himself wears every time This body comes out... In order to render the texture of the film, or to express the state of Faith's often falling into a myth, Ford frantically uses close-up shots in the film to show all the beautiful protagonists, non-protagonists' eyes, lips, as if Maybelline ad.
However, just when the film went into a hypocritical line, Faith came to a sudden stop and began to tell the story well at the end of the film. At this time, the concise narrative style and meaningful ending of that part are not enough. It is reminiscent of Jarmusch's "Broken Flower" a few years ago, which was so simple that it made people feel mixed.
When "A single man" premiered in Venice, the film ended with applause and whistles, basically, it was the usual treatment of American films with big names at film festivals - not that the film was good, just It is said that the European Film Festival, which has always considered itself lofty and has prominent leftists, has inevitably been unable to fly under the "clutch" of Hollywood.
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