5/7/2023 0 Comments My policeman full book![]() ![]() ![]() As a young schoolteacher, she’s taken in by the beauty and charm of Tom, a friend of a friend. McKee and Corrin are the most alike in their portrayal of Marion, but she is also a troubling character who eludes our sympathy. Roache’s Tom is a far cry from the soft, open youth played with a sense of innocence and naïveté by Styles, a beautiful, unknowable cipher unable to be possessed by either Marion or Patrick. ![]() Older Tom is bitter and taciturn, avoiding his wife by taking long walks on the sea wall with his dog. ![]() There is a gulf between the older Tom and the younger Tom in “My Policeman,” in both writing and performance, as there is with all of the younger and older characters in the film. In Natasha Tripney’s review of the book in The Guardian, she describes the Marion and Patrick points of view, saying that the “possessive note is the key to their tragedy and it’s telling that the man so desired by them both remains voiceless, distant.” That is not the case in Grandage’s film, adapted for the screen by Ron Nyswaner (“Philadelphia”), in which Tom is very much a real person but still feels “voiceless, distant,” a slippery, elusive character. The novel is made up of Patrick’s diary (detailing his affair with Tom) and a confessional letter written by Marion decades later. ‘My Policeman': Harry Styles Navigates Forbidden Love and Heartbreak in Gay Romance’s First Trailer (Video) ![]()
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