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So I watched Maurice, sadly at 3 am. I was nonetheless coherent, so I didn't giggle quite too much and still remember all of it, but I did play Tetris while watching. I have notes, but they mostly say things like "HIS FUCKING EYELASHES!" "BOAT HOUSE LOL" and "OMIGOD WAGNER AGAIN!" Perhaps I should spare a little bit of attention to more "serious" films.

Here are some thoughts I could gather from my jumbled notes.

The beginning of Maurice seemed to be too fun to watch in the middle of the night. I wanted to scream with laughter. (This was when I introduced Tetris to my experience to distract myself from the funny.) Yes, I know how the storyline develops into tragic, I've read the book... but the sex pep talk and Cambridge tea party/dinner in the beginning... Ye gods, what is it with Cambridge and Wagner? Or posh schools and house/dorm homosexuality? Actually, don't tell me. I'm rather content not knowing.

Here are some things I felt happy about: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves and Simon Callow. (Y U SO YOUNG? Wait, right, 1987...)

I actually did snort juice out of my nose when at the dinner table m'sieu Durham suddenly went "Oh, I say, I think I'm going to faint" and promptly fell off his chair.

I do not understand the rules of cricket one bit. There's a baseball-like setting: bats, runs and balls, but... White clothing? Wicket? What? Do people score points? (Somehow one can tell I've only come across the sport in fiction...)

Some actually say ma-mah? I always feel a bit confused when a joke has its roots in actual life.

This film was a good one. It was well-made, the story was properly thought out, if a bit tragic and slow. (We can count the latter to my short attention span, can't we?)

Also, it was a near-realistic gay romance novel written by a straight man in the first half of the 20th century and has a relatively happy ending. I am overjoyed.

(I noticed I mostly watch stuff the Internet (read: Tumblr) is excited about. I sometimes believe the hype.)

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