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• Maurice
• James Ivory
• E.M. Forster
• James Wilby
• Hugh Grant
• Gay-themed film

[solidarity2205]

I don't know why is "Brokeback Mountain" rated as the best gay movie. According to me this is the best gay movie ever made with a happy ending.

[FernandoLety]

Although I'm happy for Maurice and Alec, deep inside my heart I wish Clive could realize that his life is lie and come back to Maurice and they could run to France or other country and live their lives together happily.

[terradusa4219]

Thank you so much for sharing this film.

[HappyBookwormGirl]

I was very concerned that Maurice was going to walk into the boathouse to find Alec hanging from the rafters or something of that kind... familiarity with British literature makes me wary of any happy endings from the lot. Ah, so happy to feel a little joyful at the end of something, Clive and his symbolic windows nonwithstanding.

[MrMaheswarsatpathy]

I could not stop crying...Clive was brilliant at the end...and Maurice was so graceful

[floatinroundmytincan]

@chopin65 hope (and I do prefer it over brokeback mountain), but I see so many layers that reducing it to one seems foolish. and well, I also cried when I finished reading it and find it disconcerting that some describe the ending as happy, period. I mean, it was in a way, but it was also unbelievably heartbreaking. (and I did find maurice a bit insufferable throughout the first half of the book and always sympathized with clive... ok, I'll shut up now. I just have all these feelings for clive.)

[floatinroundmytincan]

@chopin65 I'm not so sure about that, given that forster said alec and maurice lived happily in a forever that only fiction allowed. when I think of "writing what I wish had happened to me," I think of badly written young adult fiction (mostly twilight), not maurice. and it's been a while since I read brokeback mountain, but I (as someone who isn't straight) didn't feel as though proulx was using her characters as mere plot devices. they're two incomparable stories. not that maurice can't bring

[EoinMLover]

First time I've watched this movie, and I love it! So glad it had a happy ending for Alec and Maurice....I actually got a teary at their last scene.

[skyblazer7]

@chopin65 Yep, EM Forster wrote what is essentially the first gay fairytale IMHO...a story to boost the hope and self-worth of a repressed minority that was bereft on both at the time he wrote it (and in some ways and in some places, still short on today).

[chopin65]

You're right to doubt. I found "Brokeback Mountain" depressing, and lacking compassion for gay people. It was written by Annie Proulx, who wanted her characters for only the use of the story and nothing beyond. When E. M. Forster wrote this he admitted it was unlikely. He was gay himself and lived in the time this book is set. He wanted Maurice to have what he could not. Forster writes "To a happier year." on the title page. By doing so he gives hope to his readers. Hope is as great as love.

[mabhekaphansi]

Clive's wife as a middle-aged writer, in WW2 .... Foyle's war, The Funk Hole, video 8 (on utube)

[complicatedmoonlight]

I have seen this film so many times and read the book over and over but the ending still gets me every single time. Good luck, boys.