I watch this fascinating film. How beautiful it is. How great man Oscar Wilde was.In fact, I've always said, that it is very important to know the biography of writers, in order to understand his work. Now ,I realize that it is also crucial. His work "The Picture of Dorian Gray" has left the most beautiful impression on anyone who had read it. I have never heard a bad opinion about that book. I almost read his work "De Profundis, " which is left an even bigger impression on me. Free sentences and philosophical thoughts, thoughts about life, very advanced for that time, a lot of emotion and truth, which is pronounced in this work, have made me his biggest fan. Since the act is written in short forms, in general, could not realize that this is a farewell letter to his young lover, for which it has slaved for two years. I found out tonight,while I am watching the movie about his life. Therefore, I say, it is necessary to know about life as a writer, that would be the right way, understand his work. Now I have to read "De Profundis" again, because otherwise it will be understood in light of new knowledge. Since I am his great literary fan, much easier I submitted a homosexual scene, which is in the movie. Yet he was a great man, sharp of mind and true words, and with his intellect surpassed the former, and I think the present time.

realistic. complex. seductive. with a great chance - Stephen Fry in the lead role. not only for the physical resemblance. but for manner to remind an artist in different manner. for few memorable scenes - the speech in America, the family life, the trial and the subtle game between character and its creator. because Oscar Wilde existence remains one of the most inspired reflection of the birth of contemporary style to discover, use and live the life. the film gives inspired explanations about his generosity and about his blindness about social moral, about selfish and about his work, about the manner to assume art as part of hedonism. an admirable job does Jude Law in a role who, for a long period, was ambiguous. and that is one of the great virtues of film - to present a precise portrait not only for a great writer and his existence key moments but for a vision about life who dominates our time.

(Some Spoilers) Even though the Irish born Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry, was one of the most celebrated men of letters, in his poetry short stories as well as a playwright, during the British Victorian Age it was the extremely prudish and restrictive ideas of that era in European History that in the end destroyed him.In the film "Wilde" we see a vibrant and full of life Oscar Wilde" brought down not really by his own in your face sexual conduct, in his homosexuality, but by those young men that he was sexually involved with. It all started out so innocently in Oscar getting involved with young and gay Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, Jude Law, who was anything but discreet about his relationship with Oscar. It's when Bosie's father the ultra macho and "fists of fury" the Marquess of Queensberry, Tom Wilkinson, found out that his son was both gay-as if he didn't know by then-and having an affair with Oscar that he decided to destroy Oscar's literary career as well has his life. Oscar at first just ignored the vulgar and load mouth Lord Queensberry but when finally forced to fight back by using his both sharp and stinging wit, like a left jab, and overwhelming intelligence, like a combination straight right and left hook,to keep Lord Queensberry and his foul and guttural language directed towards him at bay Oscar thus made him look like the unsavory and low class fool and ignoramus that he really was.It's was when Bosie, who hated his father for driving his younger bother to suicide and his mom into an insane asylum, goaded Oscar to take his father to court for insulting him by calling Oscar a "queer" and "sodomite" in public that sealed his fate as well as end his brilliant career as a giant in the history of English Literature. There were just too many skeletons,live as well as dead, in Oscar's closet to prove Lord Queensberry's accusations about his secret life, Oscar was in fact married with two young boys at the time, to be absolutely true. Put on trial, after Lord Queensbery was found innocent, for acts of gross indecency Oscar's witty and brilliant defense of his actions were not enough to convince a jury get him off. Convicted and sentenced to two years of hard labor at Reading Prison Oscar, who never as much as picked up anything as heavy as a book in his entire life, was subjected to such inhuman treatment by working on a treadmill for six hours at a stretch, together with his incurable syphilis, that he eventually fell completely to pieces.Finally released from prison, after serving his two year sentence, Oscar ended up broke and alone with his faithful wife, who swore she'll never leave him, Constance, Jennifer Ehle, dying at an early age and his two sons, with the court declaring Oscar an unfit parent, taken way from him. Forced to flee England Oscar, now calling himself Sabastian Melmoth, died broke and forgotten to everyone but his closest friends and family members in Paris France on November 30, 1900. Just six weeks after his 46th birthday.Truly a giant of his times, as well as now, Oscar Wilde was a victim of the same kinds of ignorance and indifference that we have even among us now in people not trying or caring to understand those that are somewhat different-racially religiously or sexually-then themselves. We in fact see in the movie that homosexuality in Victorian England was wide spread and in many cases openly exhibited with very little punishment to those involved in it. It was that the flamboyant and outspoken Oscar Wilde stuck out like a sore thumb and took his sexuality as a badge of honor not a curse that made him a target for persons like Lord Queensberry, who he accused Oscar of turning his pansy son Bosie into a sissy, to take pot shots on. In the end it was Oscar's pride self righteous as well as self respect that had him take Lord Queensbery on that unfortunately ended up destroying him!

I've watched this a number of times over the past few months on a satellite TV movie channel.It is charming, but Wilde fans will know how destructive he thought charm was.It purports to be factional, but it avoids many ugly truths about Wilde's life. That's not surprising in a politically correct world where gayness is held to be almost superior to heterosexuality.Today, Wilde would probably be even less tolerated than he was in those Victorian days. In 'intolerant' times, even until quite recently - the Fifties and Sixties - people turned a blind eye to all sorts of things as long as you kept it under wraps. Remember, in this movie, he was not hounded for his activities. The hotel staff knew what was going on, and the male brothels were not raided. He brought the court case, and his 'persecution', upon himself. Today, Wilde might be considered a paedophile. The film shows the rent boys as grown up men in suits and ties, when in reality the boys that he and Lord Alfred Douglas exploited with money were as young as 14.The sordidness of the evidence in court (faecal stains on hotel bedsheets) is absent in this sunnily-photographed movie. As is the fact that Wilde was syphilitic because of his adventures - not very pleasant for his wife.And this was, I'm sure, the true reason for the cessation of their marital sex life.If the film had been historically accurate, Fry would have been shown with black teeth in later life - this was a side effect of the mercury treatment at the time for syphilis.Not very charming.The movie also ignores the main reason for Wilde's obsession with Bosie. Like many middle class people of the time who were successful in the public arena, he craved the approval of the aristocracy. He was a snob in the true sense of the word, and sucking up (pun intended) to the upper classes and the presumption that they are better beings comes out in his work as well as his life.On the plus side, I thought Tom Wilkinson's performance as the Marquis of Queensbury was brilliant and very true to how a tough old Victorian aristocrat would have behaved.A much better portrayal than earlier ones which dismissed him merely as mad.