Favorite Movie Performance By Actor Colin Firth: a Single Man

L.A ‘62. English professor George (Colin Firth) is mourning the loss of his gay partner. He's spent the day reliving memories, but that night meets his student Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), who secretly admires him, in a bar. The two end up at George’s house after a spontaneous ocean swim. Kenny has just emerged from the shower,wrapped in a towel. George is making a fire. When Kenny goes to get a beer, he discovers a nude photo of George’s dead lover in a drawer. His suspicions about his teacher are confirmed. A beautiful score of stringed music, nostalgic and tender draws me in to every nuance of Colin's performance. George, feeling foolish and seeming a bit flushed with anticipation (yet restraining himself from improper conduct), sits on a chair across from the young man when the boy returns to the living room. A conversation ensues in which George asks Kenny questions, trying to discern the young man’s reasons for being there that night. The boy, too, is trying to learn things about George, but keeps hedging with his responses to George‘s questions, and nothing completely “telling” is ever said. Meanwhile, their eyes linger on each other. The young man’s eyes are an enchanting almost gleaming blue; I find it hard myself to look away from his sweet face. My eyes are also riveted every second to George’s face and to its many subtle changes of expression.. Finally, the boy asks George something and at that moment, George’s face blurs. My curiosity is very aroused when suddenly the scene has switched to George awaking at about 3 a.m. from his bed.. The young man, however, is not in the bed (as I had hoped he would not be). He is asleep on the sofa, and he clutches in his hands the gun which George had planned to shoot himself with. Had George revealed his plan to end his life that day to his student? Was that what happened in those missing hours? Had the boyish Kenny (while George was sleeping off his drunkenness) found the gun in the same way he had discovered the picture of George’s partner and now was holding it to prevent George from carrying out his suicide? I know I am soon going to learn George’s fate. . .