#The Sense Of An Ending

[jalwyn21]

"It was actually a book by Julian Barnes that I had read and really enjoyed a few years ago, then put it to the side and didn’t really think about it again. When I got back from America, I was told they were making it into a film and they wanted me to come in and see them for one of the parts. It has an incredible cast with Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling and Harriet Walter - great actors who really ground it and hold the film. The opportunity to be a part of that was really exciting. It’s a film about an ordinary man and an ordinary life, but it spirals into these memories from the 60s. I don’t want to say what happens, but it’s about memory and what we choose to remember and forget. I play this boy called Adrian, a character created by Tony’s memory. I wanted to do the role, because it was different - a 1960s public school boy, not a Texan soldier. Although there are similarities and parallels between Billy and Adrian, I liked the idea of playing a new part in a new world."

Joe about Adrian Finn in The Sense of an Ending

[pleasereadmeok]

Not really back from hols yet. [I'm a mirage - just go with it] Just popped back to say that 'The Sense of an Ending' is Film of the Day today -

Matthew Goode has another ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ cameo part as Joe Hunt - a history teacher.  I had to laugh when he was cast, after a few years of me saying that Matthew looks like a cute history teacher, he goes and plays a history teacher (who is definitely cute coz Matthew plays him!)   He is only in two very short scenes but as ever he is memorable.  He just nails the ‘old boys school’ private school teacher.  He is slightly sarcastic, a little quirky with his use of a cricket ball in class but also a thoughtful and charismatic teacher.  Not a lot for Matthew to work with but he does it well.  Oh and AT LAST he gets to use one of his special skills.  Matthew played county cricket for Devon as a schoolboy and it is even listed on his CV - so I wonder if that got him the part? 

A nice little cameo part.  Probably a day to film and then home to the kids.  Result for matthew!

BBC2 11.05pm in the UK tonight [Monday] and then on BBC I Player

📷 The Sense of an Ending my edit

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Day of the Dead :: ¡Feliz día de muertos!

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We live in time—it holds us and molds us—but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing—until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

—Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby's 2000's roles: Part two.

Chicklit (2016): Geoffrey The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: Season 4, Episode 4: (2011): Henry The Sense of an Ending: (2017): David Ford Inspector Lewis: Expiation (2004): Hugh Mallory Silent Witness: Nowhere Fast, part one (2006): Matt Gibb Jump Together: (2001): Nathan Little Devil: (2007): Adrian Bishop Father Brown: The Cat Of Castigatus (2018): Sefton Scott Foyle's War: They Fought In The Fields (2004): Major Cornwall Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006): Ofonius Tigellinus

[ophcliaswrites]

Freya Mavor as Veronica Ford in The Sense of an Ending

[litandlifequotes]

We live in time – it holds us and molds us – but I never felt I understood it very well. And I’m not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing – until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

[hawleywilby]

BBC Two - The Sense of an Ending

In an hour. With James Wilby!!

[dadsinsuits]

Jim Broadbent

[maria-eve-falcon]

it's more memories of the survivors

[snuffalufagus]

the sense of an ending was literally the most book ever esp reading it old year's night right before an ending that is actually not an ending but just the sense of one yeah

[jalwyn21]

can you quote this tweet

https://twitter.com/joealwyndrunk/status/1755682168901112172?t=6lqp6t1UvD6lwPvaaES1Tw&s=19

with this https://www.tumblr.com/joealwyndaily/177908676721/i-read-it-a-while-ago-in-about-2015-i-loved-it

I will also add something for the next time someone tries to use this BS again..

Principal photography on "The Sense of an Ending" began on 8 September 2015 in London and Bristol.

Also, he clearly says 2015 about The Favourite.

Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Favourite, on why he cast Joe Alwyn : “We cast him when he had only done the Ang Lee film at the time. I saw hundreds and he just stood out. He was so special and different.”

The one and only person to whom Joe owes anything career related is the filmmaker Ang Lee (a man who won two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards). Just saying... 🤭 and maybe Yorgos Lanthimos...

Joe owes her nothing! 😼

[bamsara]

I think that one thing people fail to understand is that unsolicited literary criticism coming from an online stranger who is reading with no knowledge of what the authors intended goal is, is not going to be received the same as say: the authors beta reader or friends who know what the authors intended goal and has the sufficient knowledge and input to help the author reach that desired outcome.

"But I'm only trying to be helpful" How do I know you have the knowledge and literary skill for you to be able to actaully do that when we don't know each other and you are essentially a stranger to me? Are you applying this criticism based out of personal biased experience and desire to see the story or characterization be driven in another direction or tweaked, or do you know the author's intentions for the character? If the story is incomplete, are you basing your criticism of a character on the incomplete narration with only partial information available of them or are you building up a report until the story's completion? Did the author provide you with the information needed to make a fully informed criticism?

Have you discussed with the author what their plans are or are you assuming them based off the narration, especially if the narration is proven or implied to be unreliable or missing key points of the plot? Are you unbiased enough to help them reach their desired outcome for the characters and story regardless of your personal feelings towards the characters/antagonists and setting? Can you handle being told your specific input isn't wanted because you're a reader and/or have no written anything relating to their genre or topic? Do you understand and respect that the author's personal experiences might influence their writing and make it different than how you would have done it personally? Do you understand if an author only wants input from a specific demographic relating to their story?

If it's for fanfiction or other hobby media, are you holding a free hobby to a professional standard? Are you trying to give criticism because you feel like the author has produced 'subpar job performance' of their fic? Are you viewing their work as a personal intimate outlet or something that must conform with mass media? Are you applying rules and guidelines when the fic is shared for simple sharing sake? Is your criticism worded appropriately and focused on the parts where the author has requested input on rather than a general dismissal and or disapproval?

Have you put yourself in a place where you assumed you have the input needed for the story to evolve better, or have you asked what the author needs and what they're having trouble with? Can you handle having your criticism rejected if the author decides their story doesn't need the change and not take it as a personal offense against your character? Are you crossing that boundary because you think you are doing the author a favor? Are you trying to be helpful, or do you just want to be?

I think sometimes when people hear authors go 'please don't give me unsolicited writing advice or criticism' they automatically chalk it up to 'this author doesn't want ANY constructive feedback on their stuff at all' and not "i already have trusted individuals who will help me with my writing goals and- hey i don't know you like that, please stop acting so overly familiar with me'

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Art: 'Young Girl Looking out a Window', 1885 by Laurits Andersen Ring)

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What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let life happen to him? Who had the usual ambitions and settled all too quickly for them not being realised? Who avoided being hurt and called it a capacity for survival? Who paid his bills, stayed on good terms with everyone as far as possible, for whom ecstasy and despair soon became just words once read in novels? One whose self-rebukes never really inflicted pain? Well, there was all this to reflect upon, while I endured a special kind of remorse: a hurt inflicted at long last on one who always thought he knew how to avoid being hurt—and inflicted for precisely that reason.

~Julian Barnes (Book: The Sense of an Ending) [Philo Thoughts]

[stuckinapril]

lived my whole life in guilt bc i thought i was responsible for people's feelings. newly realizing that other people are responsible for their feelings and reactions, even if they make it seem like i'm the problem. a lot of the time it really has to do w them and their own emotional regulation. i can't keep thinking i'm not allowed to have space bc of other people's insecurities. like i literally refuse to dim myself. other people are responsible for their feelings just as i'm responsible for mine.

[litandlifequotes]

Someone once said that his favourite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant something new was being born. Does this make any sense if we apply it to our individual lives? To die when something new is being born – even if that something new is our very own self? Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappointments, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use