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the right:<\/strong> once in a while, people should be a bit selfish and follow their hearts. success sometimes would follow as well<\/em><\/p>\n

i am probably the last to write about this tom ford directorial debut. and i am the first to\u00a0admit that i\u00a0hated all those gucci collections. but i love this movie.<\/p>\n

to be expected, it’s a great looking film: the not-overly-slim suits, the semi-transparent house, the wild-within-control mercedes convertible, the slightly-off-beautiful actors. the color story is unexpectedly 3-dimensional; the changes of the color intensity correspond with george’s mood and sensuality. tom ford picked the\u00a0novel of the same name<\/a> by\u00a0christopher isherwood<\/a>, and did a great job of adopting the screenplay himself, understanding that a great story is essential to his movie much the same way a great inspiration is critical for his fashion shows. the soundtrack is a perfect complement to the visuals, similar to the hair and makeup completing the looks, again, at his fashion shows.<\/p>\n

colin firth is amazing. and i love the ‘becoming george’ part. and\u00a0i love the ending with james ‘coming back’ and kissing george. what a romantic idea (kiss) of death! it’s not just about being homosexual, that would be too narrow a view. it’s more then just beauty, for that is too shallow (that’s what i thought of tom ford before). it’s not very commercial, and that is a shocker! it is about love. it is about life.<\/p>\n

i never knew tom ford has such sensuality,\u00a0this movie puts his old works in totally new contexts. maybe there are other sides of tom ford that we didn’t know about. he did (and financed)\u00a0this movie for himself and that alone deserves praise. after gucci and before tom ford menswear, someone asked him about a namesake women’s line. he answered that it wouldn’t happen before he direct a movie. with that out of the way, and rumor has it that he is busy building a women’s team, i am looking forwards to it with great expectation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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