The Terence Davies Trilogy – Children
German title: Trilogie eines Lebens – Children
Spain title: La trilogía de Terence Davies – Niños
Greek title: Η τριλογία του Τέρενς Ντέιβις – Παιδιά
Russian title: Трилогия Теренса Дэвиса – Ребенок
Original title: The Terence Davies Trilogy – Children
Spain title: La trilogía de Terence Davies – Niños
Greek title: Η τριλογία του Τέρενς Ντέιβις – Παιδιά
Russian title: Трилогия Теренса Дэвиса – Ребенок
Original title: The Terence Davies Trilogy – Children
Drama – United Kingdom
Production year: 1976
Movie length: 44 minutes
Production year: 1976
Movie length: 44 minutes
Director: Terence Davies
Writer: Terence Davies
Cinematograph: William Diver
Writer: Terence Davies
Cinematograph: William Diver
Movie description:
Davies’ film is divided into three segments entitled »Children«, »Madonna and Child« and »Death and Transfiguration«. The segments tell the life of Robert Tucker.
The first segment looks at his birth and formative years in school, an austere boy’s school. The bleak environment is not aided by loveless, violent home life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father’s death is a major impact to him.
In the second segment, he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother.
In the final segment, he deals with his mother’s death and then faces his own impending doom. As his death approaches he flashes back to his life’s events.
The first film of the trilogy, »Children«, collects the childhood flashbacks of Robert Tucker. As a child, the fey, quiet Tucker suffers tremendously. He is taunted and beaten at school, called a »fruit« by his classmates, who chase him home as soon as the ending bell rings, and sometimes catch him. He is tormented by his teachers as well; they can’t seem to resist mocking his habit of answering their abuse and punishments with a subservient »yes sir« or »thank you sir«. And at home, Tucker must deal with a brutish but ailing father (who’s cold and angry, falling apart due to illness but still possessing enough strength to beat his wife and intimidate his son.
The first segment looks at his birth and formative years in school, an austere boy’s school. The bleak environment is not aided by loveless, violent home life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father’s death is a major impact to him.
In the second segment, he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother.
In the final segment, he deals with his mother’s death and then faces his own impending doom. As his death approaches he flashes back to his life’s events.
The first film of the trilogy, »Children«, collects the childhood flashbacks of Robert Tucker. As a child, the fey, quiet Tucker suffers tremendously. He is taunted and beaten at school, called a »fruit« by his classmates, who chase him home as soon as the ending bell rings, and sometimes catch him. He is tormented by his teachers as well; they can’t seem to resist mocking his habit of answering their abuse and punishments with a subservient »yes sir« or »thank you sir«. And at home, Tucker must deal with a brutish but ailing father (who’s cold and angry, falling apart due to illness but still possessing enough strength to beat his wife and intimidate his son.
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