"Never say you know the last word about any human heart." - Henry James
Logan Mountstuart, the central character of Any Human Heart, which begins this Sunday on PBS' Masterpiece Classic, has experienced the sort of life that is overflowing with love and loss. It's a portrait of not just a life lived, but also of England in the 20th century.
The three-part drama (which aired last year in the UK on Channel 4) is adapted from William Boyd's 2002 novel, "Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart," and recounts the extraordinary life of the central character, played throughout his life by Sam Claflin, Matthew Macfadyen, and Jim Broadbent. Told in a non-linear fashion, we witness key moments in Logan's life: his Oxford collegiate days, the blush of first love and fatherhood, wartime encounters, romance and death, success and failure.
It's the elderly Logan (Broadbent) who is sorting through the detritus of his life and, it seems, his memory, attempting to arrange events in a way that they can be understood, dreams standing side by side with painful memories, half-remembered ones giving way to brutally honest ones, moments of pride and of shame. As he recalls his life, he sorts through the numerous journals he kept throughout his life, the photographs and objects he held onto, as he starts a conflagration in his back yard, the follies of youth giving way to the sobering realizations of old age.
That Logan crosses paths with some extraordinary...
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