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ninashiki · 7 months ago

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A "Terminal Note" by the author of Maurice, E.M Forster, written in 1960 decades after the original manuscript was completed (1914) but a decade before the book would finally be published posthumously in 1971. The movie is an almost perfect adaptation of the book. If you like gay period pieces with happy endings and a side of class commentary, it's a must watch.

#i got so obsessed with maurice that i got my college to send me an inter library loan from another school of a rare out of print edition #that compiled all the textual differences of each manuscript #maurice #all the sentiment em forster conveys still hits in 2024 if you are gay. but even if you arent gay #its wish fulfillment its a rejection of society its the pain of growing up wrong in peoples eyes and not knowing who you can trust #its the homoerotic best friendship that falls apart brutally #its needing a friend to last your whole life and you theirs #the 1987 date the movie came out is also like. insane to me #what other media was celebrating the potential happy ending being gay could bring during the aids crisis?#and just a year later margaret thatcher's section 28 to pass preventing 'local authorities' from endorsing or promoting homosexuality #that wouldnt have affected the release of this movie since it was independently funded; but the cultural climate was extremely harsh #honestly only saying the movie is almost perfect bc its subjective but it basically is perfectly the novel beat by beat #the stuff that they didnt keep from the book got in as deleted scenes #screenshot from archive.orgs copy of the book which has its own annotations haha #if you dont watch the movie read the book!!!!!!!!#anyway its criminal how overlooked this movie is compared to other gay films #how do people NOT know about it.....*explodes*#the soundtrack is also beautiful and i listen to it a lot to get work done #i cant help but yap about my fav things....#my apologies for the reductive sentence at the end of my post but its just there to catch peoples attention!!!!#i know its *more* than a gay movie with a happy ending but ppl dont even know the bare minimum about it..

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