![]() ![]() ![]() Patrick, being braver, older and wiser, seeks to seduce Tom, knowing well the dangers that may come if anyone - not to mention a police officer - were to find out about his homosexuality. Around the same time, Tom befriends Patrick after helping him deescalate a minor crime on the streets outside the museum. “My Policeman” primarily takes place in Britain, where Tom begins dating Marion. There are too many examples of book-turned-movies that are, to their respective fans, unsatisfying to say the least - “ It,” “ To Kill a Mockingbird,” “ Percy Jackson.” Would “My Policeman” render the same emotional grip on its audience as its novel? ![]() I get nervous when I learn that a novel I like is heading to theaters. ![]() In her novel of the same name, author Bethan Roberts seamlessly transitions from one narrator to another, effectively portraying the passion and desperation of the love triangle at the center of the story: Schoolteacher Marion (Emma Corrin, “The Crown”) and museum curator Patrick (David Dawson, “The Road to Coronation Street”) both love the same man, policeman Tom (Harry Styles, “Don’t Worry Darling”), who is unattainable to each of them. The story of “My Policeman” is an emotional telling of a tragic history regarding the mistreatment and criminalization of homosexuality in 1950s Britain. ![]()
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