by aniegirl
November 1, 2011
The upcoming movie "My Policeman," starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, and David Dawson, is releasing on November 4 at Amazon prime
This love drama, which is based on the Bethan Roberts Tom novel of the same name, is inspired by the life of renowned British author E.M. Forster and his love triangle with a London police officer, who later became a good friend, and the officer's wife.
The movie examines three people's lives and how their decisions have affected them in two timeframes.
It is the 1950’s Britain. A young policeman has fallen in love with a schoolteacher, but will soon find himself immersed in a heated affair with a male museum curator. A story of controversial love, as same-sex relationships were forbidden in Britain at the time.
David, who portrays Harry's on-screen love interest, spoke openly about how it actually felt to shoot the intimate sequence with one of the biggest pop artists in the world before the film's release.
“My Policeman” begins in the present day with the aged characters of the film: Tom (Linus Roache) and Marion (Gina McKee), now retired, live in a seaside town.
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
My Policeman then immediately start playing the younger flashback - first seen from Marion's (Emma Corrin) perspective. She is an educator who develops feelings for Tom (Styles), a police officer wanting to extend his cultural perspective. Together, they develop a friendship with Patrick (David Dawson), a curator at the Brighton Museum of Art who is an aesthete and is required by the time to conceal his sexual orientation.
When a further flashback shows us Patrick's point of view, we can see that Tom is starting his relationship with Patrick even while he is gentlemanly wooing Marion in the manner of the 1950s—a very risky move for a police officer at a time when homosexuality was against the law.
Directed by Michael Grandage. Starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina Mckee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett the movie is a sincere portrayal of a complex situation. It will not leave us unmoved.
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