My Policeman Ending Explained: Tom and Patrick Break Up Together? Who Denounced Patrick?
The movie My Policeman starring Harry Styles recently arrived in the Prime Video catalogue. Bringing a forbidden romance at the time, the film delves into a conflicted homosexual relationship in the 1950s. At first, the story of the film follows the trio of Tom Burgess (Harry Styles), Marion Taylor (Emma Corrin) and Patrick Hazlewood (David Dawson). The stories of the three intertwine when Tom ends up marrying Marion but maintains a forbidden relationship at the time with Patrick.
Years later, Marion ends up discovering the relationship and the paths of the three diverge completely. The plot takes place in two timelines: the future, in the 90s where it shows the marks of the acts committed and the past, which occurred in the 50s. Marion, in turn, ends up meeting Tom through his sister. The girl, by the way, also ends up meeting Patrick, a museum curator, but she takes a liking to Tom and marries him.
My Policeman: Plot Summary
When cop Tom (Harry Styles) offers to teach her to swim, young teacher Marion (Emma Corrin) falls in love with her. Even when she sports anything, but decent etiquette and her grammar aren’t the best, she thinks he’s perfect. In addition, Tom begins to take an interest in art and music – the passions of the sweet Marion, whom he initially distanced himself from – as the couple begins to spend more and more time with local museum curator Patrick (David Dawson). At one point, Tom even asks her to marry him, even though she has long since started a secret relationship with Patrick. But a gay cop in 1950s Brighton obviously can’t have an easy time and a marriage of convenience is the only option. Forty years later, Marion (Gina McKee) welcomes
Tom (Linus Roache), with whom she is still married, however, refuses to meet the guest: he is convinced that Marion saved Patrick from a retirement home only to be able to take revenge on him. My Policeman is nothing more than the love affair between two men in their late fifties who, to mask their feelings, have to hide behind the fiction of daily life that leads the character of Tom (Styles) to marry the too-permissive Marion (Emma Corrrin). A marriage punctuated by the constant presence of the director of the local museum Patrick (David Dawson), who will have to learn to share with the woman the man she loves, trying to keep her appearance intact.
A conventional narrative, as the transposition and staging of a tragic tale, seems to soften too much the dramatic trait of its content, making it opaque and excessively soft. An operation in which nothing manages to stand out due to the haze of Ben Davis’ photography and the pale and not very decisive direction of Michael Grandage. A delicacy in the technique that would like to return the tenderness of emotions that know how to ignite with passion but must also remain unspoken to maintain their security. What is excessive in wanting to re-propose what should be a troubling story and that he would have expected to be transmitted to the viewer as well?
My Policeman Ending Explained: Tom and Patrick Break Up Together?
Throughout the scenes, the audience can see that Tom and Patrick know each other and end up starting a homosexual relationship. In hiding at a time when homosexual affections were illegal in Britain, Tom was also fearful of the laws because of his work as a police officer. However, everything starts to go wrong when Patrick is denounced for homosexual practices by an anonymous person. The man moved in with Tom and Marion when he suffered a stroke and since then the two have been in a gay relationship.
Marion, on the other hand, was suspicious of the relationship, but only learned about the acts years later when reading a diary. To the jury, Patrick denied the charges and received Marion as his character witness, but to no avail. Marion’s presence further aggravated the situation as the prosecution sentenced Patrick to two years in prison for confirming that he and Tom were in a gay relationship. The policeman, in turn, ended up losing his job but was not arrested. Years have passed and Marion chooses to remain with Tom in a completely unhappy and cold relationship. It is not news to say that the woman was dissatisfied with her husband’s gay relationship, but she decided to remain with him despite all her unhappiness.
Marion once told him that Tom would never be alone, and this is proved when Patrick returns at a certain point in the plot. Now with the three of them together, Marion comes to better understand her husband’s relationship with the curator, although she doesn’t take it so well. Therefore, the woman decides to leave them alone and live the romance alone and leaves in search of her happiness.
Who Denounced Patrick?
At first, the beginning of the film begins with the narrative that Patrick was the real culprit for the situation Marion and Tom faced. This entire narrative dissolves, however, when the timeline reverts to the events of 1950. Shortly after being arrested in Venice and having Marion as his character witness, Patrick discovers who denounced him. At first, Marion admits that she reported the couple to the authorities out of anger and also out of homophobia. Jealous and heartbroken, the woman thought it prudent to denounce the cause of her suffering.
Sometime later, however, the woman felt remorse for her act. Although she acted out of hatred, anger and prejudice, the woman did not see herself as exempt from the guilt of the suffering that both were caused by the forbidden relationship. So Marion tried to fix things by being a witness on Patrick’s behalf, but things didn’t go as well as she had hoped.
Why Does Marion Leave Tom?
The truth is that Tom and Marion’s relationship was never a happy one. The woman always felt a certain affective distance from the boy, but she decided to continue with her marriage that way. However, everything started to change for the worse with Patrick’s arrival in their lives. Upon learning of their relationship, the woman decides to take a direction in her life and allow herself, for the first time, to be happy. It is for this reason, then, that Marion leaves Tom. She chooses to be happy.
