这部道格拉斯·斯图尔特的纪录片/传记片出自 BBC 的“想象”系列，他在苏格兰格拉斯哥工人阶级无情的东区长大成为一名男同性恋者。 BBC 的艾伦·延托布 (Alan Yentob) 在他职业生涯的关键时刻会见了他，当时他正从他成功的处女作《舒吉·贝恩》(Shuggie Bain) 的成功处女作《舒吉贝恩》中脱颖而出。 他们走在格拉斯哥东区和纽约东村的街道上，道格拉斯·斯图尔特 (Douglas Stuart) 与卡尔文·克莱恩 (Calvin Klein) 一起在高级时装领域开创了自己的职业生涯，并试图通过写作将他生活中截然不同的两个方面结合起来。
Imagine… Douglas Stuart - Love, Hope and Grit (2022) 720p
Fancy a bit of culture with which to see in 2023? Well, here you go ….
From the BBC’s “Imagine” strand comes this documentary/biopic of Douglas Stuart who grew up to be a gay man in the unforgiving East End of working class Glasgow, Scotland. The BBC’s Alan Yentob meets him at a critical point in his career as he emerges from the starlight of his triumphant debut novel, the winner of the Booker Prize, “Shuggie Bain”. They walk the streets of Glasgow’s East End and the East Village in New York where Douglas Stuart made his career in high fashion with Calvin Klein and tries to unite the two very different sides of his life through his writing.
Stuart’s first novel “Shuggie Bain”, clearly partially autobiographical, centres around an alcoholic single mother and her queer son as they navigate life on a Glasgow sink housing estate. It is distilled through Stuart’s own troubled upbringing in poverty and addiction in 1980s Glasgow. The doc takes him back to the old haunts in the novel: Sighthill, the Barras Market and the Grand Ole Opry.
We meet the two art teachers who, according to Stuart, saved his life. Just like his character Shuggie, he had lost his own mother to alcohol addiction. Douglas Stuart was on the cusp of homelessness, struggling to stay on at school, but in just a few years he went from a Glasgow bedsit to the Royal College of Art, and then landed in the epicentre of New York fashion, working with Calvin Klein.
Alan Yentob retraces Stuart’s remarkable journey in New York, where he was now able to be open about his sexuality, having faced isolation and homophobia growing up. However, despite his astonishing success in the fashion world, he had not processed the memories of his childhood. In 2009, he started writing the early drafts of Shuggie Bain as he travelled on the subway into work.
This year sees the publication of “Young Mungo”, his second and, highly anticipated novel, a love story about two teenage boys coming to terms with their queer identity in the sectarian Glasgow of the author’s youth.
Contributors include the gay actor, Alan Cumming, lesbian crime writer, Val McDermid and 1960s pop singer, Lulu, all of whom were Glasgow born. Plus readings from other local Glaswegians.
Optional English subtitles are included. They will be helpful if you are not familiar with strong Scottish accents or if English is not your first language.
Video: AVC at 5,048 kb/s, 1280 x 720, 50 fps
Audio: AAC at 128 kb/s, Stereo, 48.0 kHz
Subtitles: English in .srt format (optional)（G5V.NET）
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