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The Singing Detective. A hack writer of detective stories, Dan has suffered from a crippling disease since childhood. His latest & worst outbreak has landed him in the hospital where he deliriously tries to figure out who he is and how he got to this terrible place in his life. His fevered mind mingles real people with his fictional characters ...
S1.E1 ∙ Skin. Sun, Nov 16, 1986. Writer Philip Marlow is in hospital being treated for a severe skin affliction, something he has suffered from for 25 years but is now worse than it has ever been. He finds himself in a general ward with a group of other men being treated for a variety of ailments. Marlow's psoriasis covers him from head to ...
The Singing Detective is one of those great works that inspire something deep within the viewer, leaving them both shaken and elated by the spectacle they have just witnessed. Few cinematic works can inspire such a feeling, let alone a work for television; and it is this sense of genius that elevates this work above the comparatively "okay" likes of say, Cracker, Brideshead Revisited, and Prime Suspect et al.
The story of The Singing Detective unfolds in three time periods: the Forest of Dean in the 1930s, a 1980s hospital ward, and a film-noir fantasy London of the 1940s. The link between these ‘worlds’ is Philip Marlow, a writer of crime fiction recovering from psoriasis in hospital.
The Singing Detective is such an odd movie that I still am not sure what to make of it. I, of course, appreciated the weird little sidesteps into fantasy or dream or psychotic breakdown. This is a character with a lot of shit to work out after all. The cast is great and everyone's down with going wherever the bizarre story leads.
Apr 15, 2003 · Singing Detective is a mind-blowing tour de force combining the power of words with visuals and music that leaves you agog at Potter’s breadth of imagination and grasp of narrative structure. He has a unique knack of presenting life as it is, no holds barred, not sugar-coated but neither sensationalised, at the same time capturing the poetic essence of the human spirit.
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