5 out of 5
I love how the concept of fear in media and current events has such a relevant impact on each decade and generation. It reminds me that whatever the situation, whatever the threat, it is only the current one that is the worst.I was watching this movie and thinking to myself that the air of sadness was too strong for me to love it, truly. I had the thought that sad things are sometimes perfect in their sadness and moments later the line 'Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty' came up on the screen.
I am a sucker for this kind of British-influenced look at the late 50s and early 60s where a spotlight is shined on the unhappy housewife and overlooked homosexual. A Single Man is intriguing visually, not only in light of my propensity toward the genre, but the hue changes from dull to vivid each time the main character sees something he finds beautiful. I find the meaning to be that he couldn't see the beauty until the day he decided to kill himself and leave the world that is of equal parts beauty and pain.
Julianne Moore's eyeliner, college students smoking in class, chronic cocktail hour, and my least favorite era of architecture.
'I realize that everything is exactly the way it is meant to be.'
I loved it and I'll never watch it again.
