愈愛愈美麗

美好事物
*Beautiful Thing*
美好事物; Beautiful Thing
基本資料
導演	希提·麥當勞; （Hettie Macdonald）
監製	喬森納·哈維; （Jonathan Harvey）
編劇	喬森納·哈維; （Jonathan Harvey）
主演	格倫·貝里; （Glen Berry); 斯科特·尼爾; （Scott Neal）
攝影	Chris Seager[*]
製片商	Film4 製作公司[]; 世界製作[]
片長	90分鐘
語言	英語
上映及發行
上映日期	1996年3月28日
發行商	新力影業
預算	預算

《美好事物》（英語：Beautiful Thing）是一部1996年英國的同性戀主題電影，導演是希提·麥克唐納^[1]。劇本是根據喬納森·哈維原來的話劇由他本人改編的。故事敘述兩個普通男孩間的初戀故事，十分真實自然。影片朦朧而真摯的感情，打動了許多觀眾。最初，該劇本是為英國 4頻道電視台創作的，但由於極高的收視率，很快便被新力影業搬上了熒幕。電影完全使用凱絲·艾略特的音樂配樂，這對整部電影的氣氛起了非常強的作用。

劇情

故事發生在倫敦東南部的泰晤士米德，一個第二次世界大戰後建造的勞工階層居民區^[2]^[3]。電影也是在這裡拍攝的。

少年傑米（格倫·貝里飾）是和他的單身母親桑德拉（琳達·亨利飾）生活在一起。他愛上了他的同學斯蒂。他的母親想要自己開一家酒吧，而且她的情人也不斷地更換。她最近的情人是一個新嬉皮士托尼（本·丹尼爾斯飾）。桑德拉和鄰居利亞總是過不去。利亞是一個喜歡時髦但是沒有禮貌的人，她被學校開除，吸毒，不斷地聽了唱凱絲·艾略特的歌。雖然傑米隱瞞他的同性戀，但是由於他內向，不喜歡足球，因此成為同學欺負的對象。

斯蒂（斯科特·尼爾飾）和他販賣毒品的哥哥和酗酒打人的爸爸就住在傑米的隔壁。有一天晚上他被哥哥惡打後桑德拉可憐他讓他在自己家過夜。由於他們家裡沒有多餘的床，因此他和傑米用一個床，兩人各朝另一邊睡。但是第二天晚上他們在交談和按摩後就睡到一起了，傑米第一次吻了斯蒂。

第二天早上斯蒂陷入驚慌，他在傑米醒來之前就離開了並在此後幾天裡始終躲避他。傑米鼓起勇氣在一個雜誌店裡偷了一份《男士風尚》雜誌。他顯然開始接受自己的性選擇和他對斯蒂的感情了。最後傑米在一個附近的舞會上找到斯蒂並和他談。他們兩個正要一起離開桑德拉來到並指責利亞傳布謠言。利亞則威脅把斯蒂和傑米的事情抖落出來並承認在斯蒂的哥哥和父親前掩護了斯蒂。斯蒂非常生氣，他拒絕了傑米跑開。

漸漸地斯蒂接受了傑米的愛，他們的關係開始逐漸發展，他們一起去同志酒吧。桑德拉跟蹤他們發現了他們的秘密。利亞吸毒導致桑德拉和托尼分手。桑德拉的新工作被透露，她和斯蒂、傑米談話，最後開始接受他們的關係。

電影結束時兩個男孩兒在居民區的廣場上隨着凱絲·艾略特的《Dream a Little Dream of Me》緩慢跳舞。桑德拉則在他們身邊守衛着和利亞跳舞。周邊看的人有些顯示震驚，有些則高興。

評價

在美國《娛樂周刊》（Entertainment Weekly）評選出的90年代十大同性戀電影中，《美好事物》被排在榜首。

這部電影普遍受到好評，至2010年10月2日為止評論綜合網站爛番茄評價90%的評論是讚揚的。

家庭媒體

這部電影沒有全球性地發行，在英國它2001年和2007年作為DVD被發行。

音樂

1996年10月15日發行了一張電影裡使用的音樂的唱片^[4]。

參考資料

^ Derek Elley. Beautiful Thing. Variety. 1996年3月10日: 77. Pic, which also unspools at this year's AFM, had buyers scrambling for their cell phones in the Berlin market and is rumored to be a contender for a spot in the sun at Cannes. Its world preem is set for March 28 in the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
^ Benedict Nightingale. If only things were so simple. The Times. 1993年8月3日. Into the Bush we go and what strikes our eager eyes? Concrete paving, grey stucco walls, drab doors with 368, 369 and 370 embossed on them, and, as a feeble protest against the gloom, a few flowerpots and plaster dwarfs. This is the third floor of a council estate in Thamesmead, and as unlikely a setting for a play called Beautiful Thing as Buckingham Palace's gardens would be for Les Miserables.
^ The council cries foul play. Evening Standard. 1994年11月24日: 43. Jonathan Harvey's West End hit Beautiful Thing is 'sickening' – that's official – as far as Bexley Borough Council is concerned. Harvey's play, about gay love is, of course, set in Thamesmead, part of which falls under the council's aegis. You might think fame for the borough would fill the breast of Bexley Tory councillor Graham R Holland, but no. The Duke of York's Theatre last week received a very severe letter from him on the council's headed paper. It criticises the billing of Harvey's gay love story as a comedy, and says the Holland family were 'intimidated' by gays in the bar and that they found 'the sight of older men with young lads was sickening, if legal'. He goes on to complain about the play's 'sordid' language: 'It was gratuitous, foul and offensive and was neither relevant nor, with my experience of Thamesmead ... in any way typical of the young people with whom I am in contact.' The shocked family group left after 20 minutes.
^ Beautiful Thing soundtrack （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）. Amazon.com. 2008年11月30日查詢

外部連結

互聯網電影數據庫（IMDb）上《Beautiful Thing》的資料（英文）

[1] Derek Elley. Beautiful Thing. Variety. 1996年3月10日: 77. Pic, which also unspools at this year's AFM, had buyers scrambling for their cell phones in the Berlin market and is rumored to be a contender for a spot in the sun at Cannes. Its world preem is set for March 28 in the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

[2] Benedict Nightingale. If only things were so simple. The Times. 1993年8月3日. Into the Bush we go and what strikes our eager eyes? Concrete paving, grey stucco walls, drab doors with 368, 369 and 370 embossed on them, and, as a feeble protest against the gloom, a few flowerpots and plaster dwarfs. This is the third floor of a council estate in Thamesmead, and as unlikely a setting for a play called Beautiful Thing as Buckingham Palace's gardens would be for Les Miserables.

[3] The council cries foul play. Evening Standard. 1994年11月24日: 43. Jonathan Harvey's West End hit Beautiful Thing is 'sickening' – that's official – as far as Bexley Borough Council is concerned. Harvey's play, about gay love is, of course, set in Thamesmead, part of which falls under the council's aegis. You might think fame for the borough would fill the breast of Bexley Tory councillor Graham R Holland, but no. The Duke of York's Theatre last week received a very severe letter from him on the council's headed paper. It criticises the billing of Harvey's gay love story as a comedy, and says the Holland family were 'intimidated' by gays in the bar and that they found 'the sight of older men with young lads was sickening, if legal'. He goes on to complain about the play's 'sordid' language: 'It was gratuitous, foul and offensive and was neither relevant nor, with my experience of Thamesmead ... in any way typical of the young people with whom I am in contact.' The shocked family group left after 20 minutes.

[4] Beautiful Thing soundtrack （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）. Amazon.com. 2008年11月30日查詢

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