Brimstone & Treacle 4K 1982

Richard Loncraine's movie based on Dennis Potter's play Brimstone & Treacle.

Loncraine is a well-known British director, so it seems to me unnecessary to introduce him, as for Dennis Potter, let me say a few words, he was a playwright, he also worked in movies as a screenwriter. He was accused of blasphemy for his screenplay “Son of Man,” about the life of Christ. He was also accused of rape in this movie, I mean Brimstone & Treacle.

On the streets of one city fate brings together Martin Taylor, a petty thief and crook and Tom Bates, a respectable bourgeois. Both in their own way, unhappy, but trying to deceive themselves and others. One has serious financial difficulties, the other has problems in family relations. A few years ago, Tom Bates' daughter was in a car accident and was left disabled, and before that she suffered a deep psychological trauma related to Tom Bates' sex life. Martin Taylor enters Tom Bates' home as his daughter's ex-fiancé, until then passionately in love with her. Further we are to witness a drama of difficult psychological intensity ...

The parents of the sick girl for several years have already come to terms with their situation, but somewhere in the depths of their souls still hope for a miracle. Miracles happen in our lives, but only to realize once again that life will not offer anything good. And human kindness has its own, often prosaic interests. Understanding this will make you stronger, at least you will not be so naive that you can open your sick soul to the first person you meet.

After living your life, you will come to the conclusion that all your life you have been burned by your faith in honor, love, virtue. It should not be so, but it is so, and there is no escape from it, and if you dig deeper, not always we lived righteously, and not always we were worthy of what we expected for our deeds.