Logan Mountstuart led a good life. Not a perfect life, mind you, but it was a pretty good one. Not only that, but he reflected upon it in the most positive of ways; casually dismissing periods as a POW as 'bad luck', along with hatred from royalty, mistakenly sleeping with his dead son's 16-year-old ex-girlfriend and alcoholism. He even looks back on a period of supping on dog food and dismisses it as another of life's little bits of not such good luck.
I hope that when I go, I die knowing that I have experienced as much; as many interesting partners, as much emotion, as many voyages. Jim Broadbent ties in the ends neatly of the Channel 4 Saga Any Human Heart with experience and skill; an excellent choice following consistently tight casting throughout the production.
What makes it so good to watch? It's not necessarily the storyline, full of clichéd images of sexy femmes fatales, debauched 70s London and drugs in Berlin. I think it's Logan's incredible humanity; anyone can relate to his stoicism after the death of his two true loves (his second wife and his daughter), and we can all admire his wish to not grow old gracefully. I don't think it's believable, necessarily, but it makes beautiful viewing. The score is emotive, the sets realistic and the costume design consistently spot-on. Channel 4, you excelled yourselves.
Watch here: Channel 4 od - Any Human Heart
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