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Called "the greatest production in the history of television"
by the Chicago Sun- Times, The Singing Detective is a gripping murder mystery,
a lavish musical, an intense psychological thriller, and a warped romance. Dennis
Potter's legendary, award-winning masterpiece is all this and more. It's the story
of Philip Marlow, a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder whose
hallucinations interweave memories of his past with the murder mystery in his
book, "The Singing Detective," about a suave sleuth who croons with
a big band when he's not cracking cases. Starring Sir Michael Gambon, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer,
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"Originally made as a six-hour BBC miniseries, this brilliantly funny, touching, and completely original work focuses on Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon), a pulp writer wallowing in the hospital with a wretched skin disease. As the disease spreads, his mind wanders through the experiences that have turned him into the bitter hack he is, and we're left wondering if he's going crazy, or if the rest of the world really does break into musical numbers at opportune times. This six-hour look at self-redemption is difficult to find, and at times, wrenching to watch. But if you can get your hands on the original BBC edition, hole up for a weekend and treat yourself to a lovely mystery." - Anders Wright | |||
The StoryThe 'plot' of The Singing Detective is not entirely easy to describe, for the simple (if somewhat perplexing) reason that very little of actual, physical action takes place. It is basically a story about healing and reconciliation, with the main part of the 'action' taking place within the main protagonist's mind -- in his thoughts, memories and hallucinations. Philip Marlow is an author, mainly responsible for a batch of detective thrillers. He languishes in a ward at a London hospital, severely afflicted by a particularly vicious kind of psoriasis that has also crippled his joints. More or less unable to move, and seething with animosity towards just about everything and everyone, he occupies himself with rewriting one of his novels, The Singing Detective, in his mind. But heavily medicated as he is, and sometimes feverish, the border between reality and fiction starts to blur, and the thriller plot is mixed with his own childhood memories, paranoid fantasies and hallucinations. The hero of the novel is Marlow's namesake and alter ego, a hard-boiled and cynical private investigator, doubling as the singer in a dance band. He is recruited by one Mark Binney to investigate the disappearance of a prostitute, Sonia, and finds himself drawn into a mysterious plot to smuggle Nazi scientists out of Germany. Mixing with this story are elements of Marlow's memories of his troubled childhood. As a boy, he witnesses his mother cheating on his father with one Raymond Binney. He also remembers how he 'did his nasty' on the teacher's desk back in the old village school, but managed to put the blame on a somewhat slow-witted class mate, Mark Binney, son of Raymond. Still later, Philip and his mother leave the village to live with her parents in London, leaving Philip's father behind. Philip is intensely unhappy in the big city, as is his mother, who commits suicide (and in the thriller, turns up as a drowned corpse in the Thames). The adult Marlow is ridden with guilt over his mother's suicide and his betrayal of Mark Binney. And not only that: he is also nourishing quite paranoid fantasies about his wife, Nicola, whom he envisions conspiring with movie producer Mark Finney (Raymond/Binney/Finney are all played by the same actor) to steal his screenplay of The Singing Detective. In this fantasy, Finney cheats Nicola out of the role he has promised her in the movie, which leads to Nicola killing him and committing suicide herself (through the series, the drowned corpse in the Thames is sometimes Philip's mother, sometimes Nicola). All of this goes on inside Marlow's head. The hospital psychiatrist, Dr Gibbon, works with Marlow, and manages to untangle the mess of guilt and hostility, that drives him to 'take shelter' in his disease. Coming to terms with his inner demons, Marlow starts to heal, bodily as well as spiritually. | |||
Reviews"The
Singing Detective gluts our greedy appetite for vicarious fantasy with an ornate
confection of creamy textures and sugary tunes rich enough to make us sick. Potter's
sugar conceals not so much a pill as a poison. The opulence of the series, like
Lear's ounce of civet, barely sweetens an imagination too conscious of the sulphourous
pit beneath. "This
film, as I want to call it, is one of the most dizzying and fruitful film experiences
I have had in a long while. It is a modern drama of destiny, centered on an exposed,
suffering individual, a victim of our early and late myths, bourgeoisie expectations,
romantic illusions and brutal reality in today's schizophrenic society. But this
film is also a black, exhilarated, human comedy, full of compassion, loving insight
and tender, ironically distanced rage. | |||
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