'The Line of Beauty'

I just watched this last night. I like Tim McInninninnery but nothing actually HAPPENED, did it? And I don't get the point of Nick at all. Though it was quite funny how he is all enraptured by the beauty of posh house in London when it is clearly revolting.

I saw a bit of the repeated episode 1 on Sunday.

In my view they should have dispensed with music altogether.

Wow, looks like nobody made it to episode 2 then!
I gave up after 20 minutes or so - the only interest being that it reminded me of scenes from the (excellent) novel that I'd forgotten.

i didn't watch it because i plan to read the book again and i don't want to picture those too-blandly-handsome actors as the characters.

I saw it for the first time on Wednesday, I liked it, albiet for very base reasons i.e. I was tired and there were lots of pretty men snogging. I know, I know it's a total female chauvanist pig comment, I hate myself too.

x-post with Jed.

I liked it and part of that may be because of how close to the bone it is for a lot of people I no longer keep in touch with.

Will order the book off Amazon soon.

Well, I finally saw it. Now I suppose I understand all the "Kate to thread" comments. It's just an 80s update of Brideshead Revisited, isn't it?

Seemed rather shallow and rather too many of the characters were cartoon sketches, but I suppose that has more to do with the brevity of the adaptation. A bit heavy handed on the old "ooh, posh people are BAD, they are racist, homophobic and have affairs" like that doesn't happen in the lower classes. But it's kind of a classic genre, isn't it, the "morality play about the ill advised nature of the middle class mixing with their social 'betters' and finding them not better at all" - goes back to the 19th Century. There was something very 19th Century about it, despite the 80s soundtrack.

I mean, why *was* he so in love with Leo? That was never expanded upon, seemed more like lust to me. And why were the Feddens so keen to adopt him in the first place? Replacement for their son? As a minder for their mad daughter? (a lot of hysterical "ooh, she's MAD because she comes from such a terrible background" handwriting, even though in the latter half of the film, she's clearly on Lithium, which indicates the rather more genetic disorder of Manic Depression.)

The Thatcher bit was hilarious, though. Not entirely necessary and a bit like Tory fan fiction, but very very funny.