本剧改编自Thomas Mallon的同名小说，种草包含爱情故事及政治惊悚元素，种草记录了在麦卡锡时代华盛顿的阴影下，两个截然不同的男子结识后，他们之间变化无常的浪漫史。Hawkins Fuller是一个帅气、魅力非凡的男子，他在政治圈里保持着一份收入不凡的幕后工作。Hawkins向来避免陷入情感纠葛，直至他认识了Tim Laughlin，一个满心理想主义和宗教信仰的年轻人。两人恋情开始之际，恰逢约瑟夫·麦卡锡和罗依·科恩向“颠覆分子”和“性变态者”宣战，开启了20世纪美国历史上最黑暗的时期之一。在40年的时间里，Hawkins和Tim在各种场合产生交集——1960年代的越南战争抗议活动、1970年代由毒品引发的迪斯科享乐主义，以及1980年代的艾滋病危机，与此同时，他们面对着来自世界和自身的重重阻碍。
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回复 :Last at the Festival with 2017’s rural noir Dark River, a selection in the Platform programme, writer-director Clio Barnard returns to the Bradford, West Yorkshire setting of her earlier films for this tumultuous, fiercely affecting midlife love story.A bundle of good humour and nervous energy, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants. One day, while picking up one of his tenants’ children from school, he offers a lift to Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher and single mother of five. They bond almost instantly through their love of music, though Ali favours the high energy of Buzzcocks and hip-hop while Ava takes refuge in the quieter comforts of Bob Dylan and Karen Dalton. Despite their divergent backgrounds, differences in their stages of life, and the colour of their skin, despite the fact of Ali’s failing marriage and Ava’s fraught relationship with her adult and adolescent children, each finds themself irresistibly drawn to the other. But can their mutual desire transcend a barrage of personal obstacles?Inspired by people Barnard encountered while making her acclaimed features The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Ali & Ava is a film that feels profoundly rooted in lived experience, blending a tender emotional complexity with an at times bracing depiction of trauma and grief. Akhtar and Rushbrook’s finely hued performances speak to the setting’s cultural diversity and tribal loyalties while yielding a vulnerability that’s alternately heart-wrenching and joyous. Their story serves as a reminder that it is sometimes the least likely connections that are the ones most worth pursuing.
谢娜
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