Damage: INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES OBSESSION

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Gene Siskel upon its release considered it one of the year's best films, commenting that it is "written smart, written with a topicality, so the characters seem credible", and went on to say that " Damage is a real special film". [6] Roger Ebert described it as "one of the most compelling films [he'd] ever seen", [6] and rated the film 4 out of 4 stars. [7] After Anna calls his office, Stephen goes to her flat, where they have sex. The following day, Martyn is promoted and Ingrid arranges a celebratory dinner. There, Ingrid seems suspicious and interrogates Anna about her childhood. Anna says her brother, a year older, committed suicide over "love" when he was 16. After dinner, Martyn drives Anna home and Stephen follows them. Once Martyn leaves, Stephen enters and tells Anna how much he "wanted to touch her during dinner", leading to them having sex again. Anna describes her brother's death, after he had expressed incestuous desire, saying "he wanted me all to himself and not to grow up." She says that damaged people are dangerous, and that she hates possessiveness. In this diverting tale of the 21st century, poet and novelist ( Summer People ) Piercy explores a world where information has become a commodity more precious than gold. When Shira Shipman, a Continue reading »

Netflix UK executives Anne Mensah, Fiona Lamptey and Kate Townsend discussed the studio’s upcoming slate in London on Thursday (March 17), as the company launched new erotic thriller series Damage. Dalton, Ben (17 March 2022). "Netflix UK execs tease upcoming slate including erotic thriller 'Damage' ". Screen Daily . Retrieved 27 April 2022.Dr. Stephen Fleming (Irons), a British politician, lives with his wife Ingrid (Richardson) and his daughter. His son Martyn (Graves) works as a journalist. Martyn starts a relationship with Anna Barton (Binoche), the daughter of a diplomat. Stephen meets Anna at a reception. She tells him that she is a friend of Martyn. Stephen and Anna are immediately attracted to each other and they soon start a secret relationship. However, when Roger’s eyes met Anna’s for the first time, sparks flew.. In each other, they instantly feel sexual attraction, in the form of extreme weakness and need for each other, due to a mutual brokenness they recognize in each other, a pain they carry from from childhood. And round every meeting with her spun a ribbon of certainty that my life had already ended. It had ended in the split second of my first sight of her. Following the presentation from the three executives, director SJ Clarkson and lead actress Sienna Miller presented the trailer for UK series Anatomy Of A Scandal, about a sexual consent scandal among the UK elite and the women caught in its wake. my life would have been lost in contemplation of the emerging skeleton beneath my skin. It was as though a man’s bones broke through the face of the werewolf. Shining with humanity he stalked through his midnight life towards the first day.’

Adapted from a novella by Josephine Hart, Damage centres on a love triangle between an enigmatic woman (Murphy) who embarks on a passionate affair with her fiancé’s father (Armitage).Brother–Sister Incest: Anna and her brother were very close, so close that he committed suicide when Anna started dating a man. This would make a great book for a reading group discussion since it brings some interesting questions to mind.