This British drama really made me slap the table and laugh out loud. It brings out the whole event delicately, meticulously, and precisely. At the end of the day, no one was sure if Jeremy was in love with Norman, and every time he had a chance to confess, he either denied it right away or swallowed it back. I think this is the director's intention. His love and dislike have been unverifiable, maybe even he himself is not clear, but what can be seen is that he has been unable to tell the truth under the dual repression of politics and the law, powerless Tell the truth. The damage done to Norman by the incident was significant and unquestionable, but the damage to Jeremy was equally there. Before the court sentencing, he recalled the hurt he had suffered because of his sexual orientation and helplessness, and Norman was the best one for everyone else; but the relationship still cost him his future and his reputation. This is not to blame for Norman, it is the law and social trends that need to be responsible for this, and it is these that have forced them to come to the present step by step. This is a "very" British scandal, because it was a scandal created by British society at that time, a scandal created by forbearance, and a scandal created by lies. It is precisely because of the change in the law that the scandal will be exposed and will now have the opportunity to appear on the big screen again. But such a change is not enough, because there are still scandals like this happening somewhere, even around us, where gays lose their jobs because of their sexual orientation, and are blamed and bullied? Change takes more than the law, it takes courage; not just Norman's courage, but more pub-owner-like courage.
This show has a lot of heavy plots, but I still think it's a British drama with dark humour, because it still manages to make the audience laugh in extremely heavy places, and yet feel ashamed and heavy to laugh.
The most notable one is the "bunnies bunnies" segment and the court debate. When the three women say "bunnies" in a strongly interrogative tone, and when Jeremy tries to grammatically justify the plural of bunnies, the series of absurdities are brought to the extreme! This is ridiculous! The same is true of court debates. Everyone laughed out loud as they took the painful past of the two parties as a joke; the most absurd thing is that hard facts are regarded as lies, lies are regarded as facts, and guilt becomes innocence. .
It's dark humor of course, but it also confirms the title of "British Scandal", aren't these Brits the best at making jokes about things that hurt them?
Isn't the world best at turning one person's pain into someone else's joke?
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