NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
My Policeman has been described by its own cast as a movie about ‘wasted time’.
It tells the story of a policeman who pursues a romance with a museum curator at a time when homosexuality was illegal. Diary entries discovered 40 years later reflect on their secret relationship after policeman Tom Burgess spent four decades married to Marion Taylor, unable to stay with his true love, Patrick Hazlewood, due to the law.
He ‘wasted’ such a large portion of his life after settling to protect his safety, despite knowing he would always be unfulfilled.
And while the story is handled with real care and compassion, I can’t help but ask: is it one we really need to be telling?