Psyche

English is not my first language.

[atlas-cian]

He is NOT listening.

[pppuri]

gossip in the paddock

[dannyriccsystem]

“oh oscar is ken, lando is ken, george is ken” LIAM. WHAT ABOUT LIAM.

[thrombeyking]

I’ve had a case of sudden onset obsession and strangely enough, it’s for Hugh Grant. 🖤🤍🍸

[burningvelvet]

imagine the picture of dorian gray (1891) but dorian is jude law in wilde (1997) and lord henry is hugh grant in maurice (1987)

[inkword]

Forge Funnyman Fitzwilliam

[modernmanblues]

oh so she gets it

[followthemadrabbit]

Hugh Grant as ɢʀᴇɢ ꜱɪᴍᴍᴏɴᴅꜱ in

Ｏｐｅｒａｔｉｏｎ Ｆｏｒｔｕｎｅ: ᴿᵘˢᵉ ᵈᵉ ᴳᵘᵉʳʳᵉ

ᴅɪʀ. ɢᴜy ʀɪᴛᴄʜɪᴇ

[benoits-neckerchieves]

everyone go watch bridget jones 4 !!!!

Hugh Grant in ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ (2025)

[pmaabas]

Hugh Grant in Sirens (1994)

[psychecarr]

Can’t stop watching this clip…

[riverlarking]

SIRENS (1994) — dir. John Duigan

[thechaperones]

Hugh Grant as Rev. Giles Horrox // Hotel Heavy // Lloyd Hooks // Denholme Cavendish // Seer Rhee // Kona Chief in Cloud Atlas (dirs. The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer, 2012).

[deadcomputer]

my favorite failson

[licedarko]

Clive durham icons 🔍

[elinordash]

HERETIC (2024)

I need you to have a very basic understanding of iterating, because I’m going to make a very disturbing claim tonight. It will make your stomachs sink a little and your hearts beat faster. It will make you sick.

[ultra-rockart]

In Defense of Clive Durham

It's 3AM and I'm still awake. But I had to get this out of my chest... this rant is about the movie and including what happens in the book. Consider this an attempt at a character analysis... originally posted as a youtube comment.

I think you have to read the book to understand Clive as a character even more. We don't get much description of Clive's painful background in the movie like in the book, but Hugh conveys it brilliantly. When Clive says, "You dont know what Hell's really like," you feel his pain, and you have a faint idea of what that hell must have been like for him as a young man growing up in repressive England.

But the book opens your eyes to Clive's turmoil so much more. While Maurice is only faintly aware of his attraction to men until Clive awakens it in him, Clive knew from a young age he was gay and suffered for it.

Deeply religious, sensitive, and intellectual, he turned all this conflict--the world's hatred for his kind--inwards, sure in his mind he was damned. "It must not ever become carnal." He had a nervous breakdown at 16 and had to be removed from school. Intimacy scares him. It's the reason he keeps his relationship with Maurice platonic. He had a lonely existence and he kept to his books and music and never allowed anyone close for fear of corrupting another boy. That is until Maurice. Clive confessing his feelings to Maurice was not an easy thing to do and Maurice's initial disgust broke him.

People don't seem to realize that Clive was already a broken man even before Maurice knew him. Maurice and their love had provided a respite from Clive's inner turmoil. But even when they were happiest, that turmoil never ceased. Clive feels the weight of the pressures to conform to the point he successfully represses his urges and announces that he is cured and no longer loves Maurice (nobody who reads the book buys this and Forster even contradicts himself). In the movie, Risely's arrest becomes the catalyst for Clive's change of heart. And while Clive has his share of issues and faults, his actions and intentions weren't evil. He never meant to be cruel. Even Forster admits to that and says that he was unfair to Clive. Forster could have easily turned this book into Clive's story. Clive, out of the 3, is the most compelling character IMHO. He is also the most tragic. Lonely and afraid throughout most of his childhood and teen years, but for one brief moment of 3 years, he truly felt happiness with Maurice. But due to his own actions--giving in to his fears, he's sentenced himself once again to a life of loneliness and regret.