Nice touch in the movie "Harry Brown"
I watched Harry Brown; or, The Pensioner’s Revenge, with Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer, last night. Quite a good movie. That’s not the actual subtitle, but it seemed fitting: Michael Caine is the pensioner.
At one scene we see him in the cemetery. He has brought flowers, and we have just witnessed the death of his elderly wife. Harry kneels down with a bunch of flowers, putting one by a small granite headstone that includes a sculpture of a teddy bear—obviously, his child’s grave. The rest he puts by a grave at whose head is a simple wooden cross, painted white, with a photograph at the intersection of the arms and upright, stapled in place and protected by plastic: his wife’s grave.
No comment is made, but the two markers poignantly mark how Harry has fallen on hard times compared to his earlier life. Very well done.
