![]() ![]() What follows is a jigsaw of glimpses into an old man's obsessive quest for redemption as he becomes haunted by an act of spite that he believes led to the suicide of his best friend. He busies himself in his tiny shop selling second-hand Leica cameras when one day a lawyer's letter arrives that reopens memories of his first love. Retired divorcée Tony (Jim Broadbent) is known as a curmudgeon by his ex-wife Margaret (Harriet Walter) and daughter Suzie (Michelle Dockery). ![]() The film plot is simple but the story complex. Joining these dots help us to understand what this film is about. ![]() This philosophical insight inspired the 2011 Julian Barnes novel of the same name that is now adapted in the film The Sense of an Ending (2017). We do this for one simple reason: to make it possible to "coexist with temporal chaos" and to "humanise the common death". He argued that we all internally write the fictions of our lives into a coherent pattern so things appear to have a logical beginning, a middle and an ending. In 1967, acclaimed literary theorist Professor Frank Kermode published a seminal book called The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction. ![]() Some use the big screen, others a book or a painter's canvas, but most of us tell stories to ourselves. Everyone is a storyteller in their own way. ![]()
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