A Single Man. Tom Ford.
GO watch if you haven't already.
The loss of one's love and the aftermath of that. Colin Firth is amazing. Ah- mazing. The film center's around his character, George, who loses his love Jim. It shows his methods of coping and his struggle to go on living each day waking up to the realization of his loss.
Despite my preference of men, I still think a woman's body is much more elegant than that of a man. This was the first film that made me see elegance in the male body. Sure you see it in a male ballerina, but this was a different one. It wasn't a feminized masculinity. It wasn't a beefcake-esque masculinity either. It was just pure elegance. The body wasn't objectified in a manner that made it corny either, it was approached from an artistic aesthetic. Ford definitely made me see things in a different light. Love!
Even in the opening scene with the mirror you can tell that Professor Falconer has some very luxurious cologne bottles and the overall refined taste of Ford is evident. It doesn't scream out it's fashion ties but they're there if you know where to find them. The film touches on thoughts I'm sure the modern philosopher in all of us has pondered one time or another. Not to be a broken record but I just really enjoyed this film. The ending was exquisitely done as well. It was irony and something else. It really enforced, for me at least, the fact that everything will fall into place when the time is right.
And Julianne Moore... her portrayal of Charly was so very vulnerable and exposed. I appreciated her raw performance. And she was surprisingly humorous. I think whoever did the casting did a really good job with all of it. If those aren't reason enough, go to hear the soundtrack, see the wardrobes and the embodiment of Tom Ford in moving picture.
p.s. It makes Los Angeles seem like a more exciting place. And makes suburbia alluring. And landscape look erotic.
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