Stuart A Life Backwards Film

As the title suggests the book starts from shorter s adult life and works backwards to trace through his troubled childhood examining the effects his family schooling and disability had.

Stuart a life backwards film. Directed by david attwood. My name is psycho but you can call me stuart if you want before his breakout role in bronson tom hardy showed his true potential in a small made for tv film stuart a life backwards. A life backwards is a biography by alexander masters of his friend stuart clive shorter formerly at various times a prisoner and a career criminal. It explores how a young boy somewhat disabled from birth became mentally unstable criminal and violent living homeless on the streets of cambridge.

There is depicted here not just a young man s lifelong fight against abuse of every kind but his resiliance intelligence and wit. The story line is told backwards as stuart requested and the film ends with a poignant resolution to stuart s heartbreaking situation. He co stared along another relatively unknown at the time benedict cumberbatch at least outside of great britain. A writer takes a backwards look at the life of his unlikely friend stuart a homeless alcoholic who experienced a traumatic event in his childhood.

In a life backwards stuart gradually takes the author alexander masters and the reader back in time and shows how his life experiences as a child and young adult shaped him into becoming the person that alexander sees which is an unstable adult who eventually looses his life. A life backwards is a film about human diversity and the things we all share.