Daphne (2007) (TV)

Director:

Clare Beavan

Writers:

Margaret Forster (biography)
Amy Jenkins (writer)

Release Date:

12 May 2007 (UK)

Genre:

Biography

Plot:

Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds"...

Plot Keywords:

Writer | Lesbianism | Lesbian Kiss | Fur | Lesbian

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Tim Ahern	...	Dickie
Tessa Hall	...	Air Hostess
Andrew Havill	...	Tommy Browning
Jenny Howe	...	Tod
Christopher Malcolm	...	Nelson Doubleday
Elizabeth McGovern	...	Ellen Doubleday
Janet McTeer	...	Gertrude Lawrence
Felicity Montagu	...	Director - 'September Tide'
Nicholas Murchie	...	The New York Prosecutor
Shane Nolan	...	Waiter
Malcolm Sinclair	...	Noel Coward
Geraldine Somerville	...	Daphne Du Maurier
Aaron Sweeney	...	Photographer / Waiter
Jay Taylor	...	Evan Davies
Phillip Whiteman	...	Italian Waiter

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Filming Locations:

Cornwall, England, UK

Company:

BBC Arts

A Worthy Intellectual illumination into women's right to love

Love between women is simply so pure and graceful, and it may not always be appropriate nor impartial to call them lesbians as the Occidental cultures have been labelling them. Man's love may include a portfolio of materialistic prosperity but there always be some area left out such as basis for a perfect equality which is essential for their sense of mutual belonging and a higher sense of harmony ultimately leading to spiritual unity that women vow to each other. I personally can not deny venerable deference of any mentioned qualities that we men can not compete that of women.

Not a bad film in the context of enlightening women's culture in particular to those prefers another woman for love relationship. Their culture has come a long way from the time where the Lady Daphne herself survived. It is undeniable fact that Daphne grew up in an elite and affluent family heritage which likely prevented her to be locked into mental institution or subject of judicial execution of capital punishment which occurred in Spain during Francisco Franco's dictatorship and China during Cultural Revolution during the Chairman Mao's dictatorship. I consider such punishment were indeed the most serious crime against humanity and should be prevented at all cost.

Love is love whether between women or men, is still the highest and most privileged form of interaction between individuals. I am hoping that a work in this scale from BBC production to set a counteracting force against a oppressive trends instilling upon audiences unjustifiable belief that love story between women must ends in tragedy. Such meaningless belief had been supplanted upon us but it does not take Doctorate level Studies of Psychology and Sociology to reveal that it originates by the efforts of Phallocrats who shares the same mentality of those who executed women who were in love with another woman.

Societal acceptance of freedom to love including the same sex partner amongst male subjects was known to have began in ancient Etruscan civilization. Sadly the benefits of freedom, love and right were only recognized amongst only male subjects during the dawn of Etruscan civilization. Worse yet, such vulgar, premature and inhumane form of crude civilisation had migrated to every part of Eurasian continent with distasteful off-shoot customs such as procurements of catamites.

Women were often valued less than a household animal. It was particularly true in ancient Chinese Empire. When a woman was found next to any man of high birth, She was immediately beheaded accused of being a parasite or vermin and replaced by a catamite. That inhuman mentality still seems to be intact with some men's mind. Fortunately the replacing women with catamites did not occur in Japan, but all Japanese have committed similar crimes down the history during the mediaeval age discarding new born female infants in favour of male infants. China has a long history of Phallocentric homosexuality goes back about to 1600BC In fact they do have a long history of homosexuality following Greece, Middle East, and India. I believe that the tradition migrated via Silk Road from Etruria (ancient Tuscany) then to Sparta, then Turk, then India and to China. However, those were male homosexuality including most distasteful and bizarre catamites. Japan has a long history of Parthenocentric homosexuality amongst noble born court attendants and they developed highly intellectual feminist scholar of their own. Contrarily to common beliefs, before the paternalistic authoritarianism ever had any chance to come in effect in Japan, there were four contiguous centuries, a long historic period called the Heï An Era (794 - 1185 A.D. meaning the time for peace and tranquillity) where contemporary feminist scholars including art, poetry, and literature flourished in Japanese Imperial Court. It is often considered the peak of the Japanese civilisation. I personally view societal harm from Phallocentric homosexuality is so disastrous beyond comparison with Parthenocentric homosexuality. Unfortunately Chinese men usually do not wish to grant a same degree of freedom nor intellectual opportunities to women. Fortunately, Parthenocentric homosexuality controls unnecessary growth of population hence it is beneficial in term of ecology Many times in Occidental history, women were shut out from opportunity to explore intellectual world. It is highly likely all men were fearful of women's innate social skill embedded in their gene from our mammal ancestors. Prehistoric men have already witnessed the intensity and wisdom of communal love between female lions. Hence cultural segregation between sex began arising out from intrinsic fear present in men's psyche particularly amongst those uneducated and ignorant of humanity. Pinecloud, Palo Alto, California. USA