Brideshead Revisited. When I think back on this film I think about my journey while visiting…and I’ve never been.
I watched this film and was sucked in to England during 1920’s. I saw Brideshead, one of the most beautiful mansions I have ever seen on screen. I met Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) and I watched him start his everlasting and impactful relationship with Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw). The two of them embark on an emotional journey together through falling in love with each other’s company, drinking a little too much wine, and providing a sense of stability in each crazy lives. Charles then meets Julia Flyte (Hayley Atwell ) and the three of them spin out of control. Enter jealousy, corruption, forbidden love, alcoholism, a world of privilege, and Catholicism. Charles is an atheist and he is content until he enters the world of Brideshead. Suddenly it becomes more important to the Flyte family that they find his true intentions, his motives, and his persona. Charles no longer acts without being seen by someone and his feelings come out lopsided.
Sebastian’s unhappiness hinders Charles’s responsibility to himself. The mother of Julia and Sebastian, Lady Marchmain is looking to ruin the relationship between her children and Charles while at the same time asking him to take care of them both. The most intimate mystery unfolds in this film. Is Brideshead the problem? Does the house draw people in and convince them to change their morals or is it the person who was like that all along and it came out when introduced to the beauty of it all?
A gay bestfriend and a catholic lover, Charles is forced to make a decision.
Sebastian Flyte: I asked too much of you. I knew it all along, really. Only God can give you that sort of love…It was my fault for bringing you to Brideshead. Run away. Run far away and don't ever look back.
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