The book and TV series of Brideshead Revisited are markers of anti-modernist, deeply Catholic, belief. The depth of cynicism about the modern secular world - in all its fashions from painting to war, from politics to bureaucracy, from its architecture to its preferred social classes - are evident, exhibited on every page and the TV series followed this brilliantly.
Perhaps most of all, the portrayal of religious faith - is brilliant shown as something deeply unpopular and restricting of its adherents in this modern secular world, found stupid by the skeptical rationalist protagonist - and yet irrationally deep and true and charitable and lasting in all circumstances high and low, in all conditions superior and servile.
The book was given to the future director of Kinky Boots, a man who has either NO understanding of the entire underlying theme of the book and TV series - or an unrelenting hatred of what he was to direct - this is a film that completely diverts the themes of the book and first TV series to utterly mistaken ends - seeks to undermine the book for the deviant purposes of the director's own.
DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE - it's awful, just atrocious and has absolutely NOTHING in common with the book's attitudes, purposes, themes, and intent. It's putrid.
Perhaps most of all, the portrayal of religious faith - is brilliant shown as something deeply unpopular and restricting of its adherents in this modern secular world, found stupid by the skeptical rationalist protagonist - and yet irrationally deep and true and charitable and lasting in all circumstances high and low, in all conditions superior and servile.
The book was given to the future director of Kinky Boots, a man who has either NO understanding of the entire underlying theme of the book and TV series - or an unrelenting hatred of what he was to direct - this is a film that completely diverts the themes of the book and first TV series to utterly mistaken ends - seeks to undermine the book for the deviant purposes of the director's own.
DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE - it's awful, just atrocious and has absolutely NOTHING in common with the book's attitudes, purposes, themes, and intent. It's putrid.