The Terence Davies Trilogy

The tormenting dilemmas of a man, forced to struggle his whole life with his dual "nature," balancing incompatible desires - the desire of God embodied by the church and the desire of homosexuality. The overall triadic structure (childhood - adulthood - old age; church - mother - libido) intersects the entire trilogy in its central theme, which is the protagonist's tormenting and touching reconciliation of the demands of the religious superego and the sexual id, between which a weakling is caught, condemned by his indecisiveness to a life of solitude. The tragedy of the protagonist’s life in this classical sense is further emphasized by the fact that it should be God who breathed his nature into his son, and it is the same God who, in the Bible and the acts of St. Peter, the founder of the church, embodied his Catholic law in all his little lambs as their true nature. The "film," even though it is composed of three short films, they are united by a uniform and, despite its minimalism, impressive form - the desolate black and white camera in static shots weighs on its protagonist just as much as his self-reproach and does not allow him to escape his inner turmoil even with camera movement. On the other hand, the soundtrack often exceeds its place in the corresponding scene and spills over into preceding/following scenes - thus brilliantly imitating (together with the arrangement of scenes not based on linear, but purely subjective relationships of human memory, which finds closeness between otherwise temporally and spatially alien events) the manner of human reminiscence, which the entire autobiographical film de facto is. (31.08.2015)