Daniel Mays (Line Of Duty, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Public Enemies) stars in BBC Two's powerful factual drama as Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose lover Eddie McNally (played by newcomer to television, Richard Gadd), under pressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s - the infamous Montagu Trial.
More than ten years before the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in 1967, Peter Wildeblood, and his friends Lord Montagu (Mark Edel-Hunt) and Michael Pitt-Rivers, were found guilty of homosexual offences and jailed.
With his career in tatters and his private life painfully exposed, Wildeblood began his sentence a broken man, but he emerged from Wormwood Scrubs a year later determined to do all he could to change the way these draconian laws against homosexuality impacted on the lives of men like him.
Daniel says: 「I'm incredibly proud to be part of a drama that tells such an important real-life story. Peter Wildeblood is a fascinating, complex, yet flawed character from a time when being a gay man in Britain was incredibly difficult - I can't wait to bring his tale to life for the BBC Two audience.」
Patrick Holland, Channel Editor, BBC Two, said: 「50 years ago, it was a crime to be a gay man in the UK. Against The Law is a stunning piece that melds drama and documentary testimony to tell the story of one man, and his wider generation, as they struggled to make society accept their sexuality as non-criminal. It is brilliant to have a film that brings the authorship of Brian Fillis, the vision of director Fergus O'Brien, and the outstanding talent of Daniel Mays and cast to this important subject」
The drama also features Mark Gatiss (Taboo, Sherlock) as Wildeblood's prison psychiatrist, Doctor Landers and Charlie Creed-Miles (Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders) as Superintendent Jones.
Woven through this powerful drama is real-life testimony from a chorus of men who lived through those dark days, when homosexuals were routinely imprisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion therapy in an attempt to cure them of their "condition". There is also testimony from a retired police officer whose job it was to enforce these laws, and a former psychiatric nurse who administered the so-called cures. All of these accounts serve to amplify the themes of the drama and help to immerse us in the reality of a dark chapter in our recent past, a past still within the reach of living memory.
劇情雖然有大義,也并未一味激進,適當反思了當時的歷史行為,但是仍舊還是拍得比較乏味冗長。以此類比“教父”恐怕還少了些人文主義的關(guān)懷和浪漫色彩。
此地的戰(zhàn)爭結(jié)束,彼地的屠殺開始,政治就是以這般猙獰的面目在人世間輪回。每個民族都有自己不愿觸及的瘡疤,一部電影也無法消弭民族間的恩怨情仇,但真的勇士,卻敢于直面慘烈的歷史。
選取一家三兄弟最為革命的斷層加以表現(xiàn),可惜故事毫無吸引力,手法也非常平庸。其實這三兄弟的命運根本代表不了革命的進程,導演對于最后勝利的原因也沒有絲毫的交代,因此開頭結(jié)尾獨立于故事的紀錄片段就成了一種刻意求大的煽情。
獨立戰(zhàn)爭。其實我對歷史沒什么興趣。。。
薩科奇 my son, you are a bitch!
黑幫與革命的雜糅,時刻不忘陰暗面,境地盡是悲愴,民族、國家就像割不斷的三兄弟和母親。
2012 08 23 資料館 with 牛逼的設(shè)計師,聊了職業(yè),七夕,和其它。奧巴馬和亞當桑德勒演得都不錯,是那種影迷們錯過會后悔,但非影迷可看可不看的片子。
獨立與自由必定會付出流血的代價。但不是只有這么一條路可以選擇,當時的阿爾及利亞和現(xiàn)在的敘利亞所面對的并不一樣,要想永久的和平只有從停止殺戮開始.
看看法國人怎么面對歷史的!
以法國人對政治的認知習慣,這種反向思維的進步式思考也不奇怪??蛇@樣的后911式的政治問詢和反思,也僅僅是藝術(shù)家勇敢剔除意識形態(tài)之后的癡問而已,不見得不蒼白不空洞不敷衍,終究只是一種更合理的思考方式而已,并未觸及問題根源。
法國是多么言論自由的國家,這是一部批判自己國家侵略史的影片,還能在本國最大的嘎納電影節(jié)上放映~
警惕"正義"的 暴力。
革命哪兒有不流血的哪?
大時代從小人物講起屢見不鮮,但是太收斂,往往也小家子氣了。
很真實 最后,你贏了
7分 革命的冷酷和手足的情誼的交織 政治電影拍出了新意 還不錯哦【電影資料館】
沒有勝者
[阿爾及爾之戰(zhàn)]的另一面:FLN在巴黎的第二戰(zhàn)線。不同于[阿]的大全景式歷史書寫,影片采用了“三兄弟”的傳奇化結(jié)構(gòu),三兄弟分工明確,老大負責信仰與暴力,老二負責政治,身上集中了對左派乃至托派的深刻反思,老三一線則作為一種消解和制衡的力量。全片的淺焦攝影可看做一種歷史觀的反映
第三世界的無產(chǎn)階級獨立革命萬歲!。。。導演Rachid Bouchareb延續(xù)了《光榮歲月》中明確的政治姿態(tài)
基本上是《光榮歲月》原班人馬的卷土重來,相比上回的旁敲側(cè)擊,這回目標更加鮮明。值得稱道的是影片并沒有完全的一腔熱血,也融入了對反抗的懷疑與探討。一直很喜歡賈梅爾·杜布茲,缺了一只手的他能有今天的成就,實屬不易。