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Time to give the movies a rewatch. It's been a long time since I have watched the interesting ones. The Trilogy and The Long Day Closes were good, does anyone else know of his other work that focused on boys? some exerpts from Obituary from the Guardian's Ryan Gilbey The first part of the trilogy, Children (1976), showed Robert as a bullied, tentatively gay schoolboy, and cleaved closely to Davies’s own life, ending with the death of his “psychotic” father Moments of transcendent beauty nestled alongside instances of lacerating pain. There was a similar division in Davies himself. Here was a man given to brooding, despair and self-loathing that could be lightened unexpectedly by outbreaks of exuberance or glimmers of camp, waspish wit. He later rhapsodised about the four-year period beginning with the death from cancer of his father, who was a rag-and-bone man, when he was seven. “I was conscious of being ecstatically happy but knowing it was going to go,” he said. Sure enough, that bliss came to an end when he started secondary school, Sacred Heart Roman Catholic boys’ school. “The first day, these lads saw their victim – and I was beaten up every day for the next four years.” https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion/film/2023/oct/08/terence-davies-obituary you guys are using tor aren't you? Don't think he was one of us but he understood the inner life of children living with abusive adults and Catholic schools. |