#The Sense Of An Ending

[fervi-g]

Book recs

Thanks for the ask 🫂 I feel that I need to read more books to be able to legitimately give recommendations but these are my choices for the moment!

[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]

(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]

[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

[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!!

[theflyestwhiteboyofthemall]

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

[ghostingfee]

"It is often the statement made with an eye to the future that is the most suspect."

Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

[eydilily]

promises

[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! 😼

[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

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[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

[egophiliac]

So.... what are your thoughts on Ace's UM, if you haven't been asked this already?

sneaky magic for the sneakiest boy

no but really, I think it fits him really well! I had thought his UM would probably involve something kinda sleight-of-handy or pickpockety! and I looooved that it made such a nice loop-around back to episode 1. ❤️ I was. kind of half-expecting him to just run out and punch Riddle in the nose again. but instead this time 'twas he who offed the queen's head! it was great! and he did it while stone-cold terrified out of his mind! because Ace is the only remotely normal or well-adjusted person at NRC and therefore the only one who is like "we're going to literally die, this is super effed up". but he did it anyway!!!! I AM SO PROUD