From member Brandon Fibbs:
A Single Man is a lavish and romantic examination of interrupted love, a chronicle of life and loss and everything that binds it together. Its mood is its truth and its imagery is all the narrative we need. It is one of the most beautiful things you will set eyes on all year.
The plot of A Single Man is confined to a single day, both routine and eventful, in the life of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a 50-something British expat who teaches literature at an unnamed Los Angeles college. The year is 1962, the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and as America teeters on the brink of cultural and political upheaval, George has resolved to end his life. Several months earlier, his lover of 16 years (Matthew Goode) was killed in an automobile accident (a tragedy that touches him most agonizingly of all but which he cannot publically grieve or participate). George, struggling unsuccessfully to find meaning after the tragedy, goes about getting his affairs in order and making preparations for his suicide.
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