Michael Cunningham The Hours // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Keaton St. James Salvation @boykeats // Sue Zhao // Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory // Sarah Ruhl Eurydice (via @metamorphesque) // The Last of Us Part II (2020) cr. Naughty Dog // Richard Siken Crush // Czeslaw Milosz (tr. Robert Haas) "Late Ripeness," Second Space: New Poems // blue (2002) dir. 安藤尋 Hiroshi Ando // Rosamund Hodge Gilded Ashes // Allen Ginsberg Howl and Other Poems // Louise Erdich // Call Me By Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino
Clive to his wife: I say, I sure am glad Maurice and I remained friends after the nasty bit of trouble we went through. I do hope he is enjoying his stay at our house
Maurice getting his back blown out by Clive's gamekeeper in Clive's guest room:
"I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?"
I'm hyperfizating so now I'll explain in great detail why I think the first part of the lyrics of "grande" from Bruno Mars fit Maurice perfectly.
Describes how Clive is superficial and how above all else he cares about his image in society rather than the people in his life.
Reminds me of when Clive told Maurice that he lived him only to say "actually I'm str8 now haha" later.
Again, Maurice was so deeply devoted to Clive and all he wanted was to be his but instead Clive just kept pushing him further and further away.
Maurice was willing to do pretty much anything for Clive.
This part hurts especially much because it's just so accurate. It was removed from the movie but in the book, after Clive Married Ada, Maurice wanted to kill himself. He had already decided he was going to shoot himself with a gun. the lyrics are way too accurate.
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Films in frame: Past lives, La la land, Fleabag, Normal People, In the mood for love, Atonement, Potrait of a lady on fire, Maurice, Blue Valentine, Her