Talk:The Sense of an Ending (film)

"Story" section needs work

Text comes off as a review or blog post, not a Wikipedia article. I don't know how to label it appropriately, though, so this'll have to suffice for now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.249.185.186 (talk) 08:04, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Location

Tony's camera shop is on Fortess Road near Tufnell Park Tube Station, next to the Blue Moon Thai Restaurant and the local Sainsburys. I used to live nearby for 11 years! Just north of the shop (left, in film terms) is an estate agents which used to be a cafe where I was a regular.

At the start of the film we see Tony arriving for work somewhere else with a number 88 bus in the background, before it cuts to the shop - we are no doubt expected to believe that this is where the shop is meant to be in the novel, even though it's filmed in a different place altogether. Most of the other travel in the film makes perfect sense - after their first meeting on the Millennium Bridge he follows Veronica into St Paul's Tube, from whence she gets the Central Line to Bank then the Northern Line up to Highgate, and for their second we see him coming up from Leicester Square Tube to Foyle's Bookshop. However, in that opening scene Tony teleports.

Unusually, the interior of the shop is actually filmed inside there rather than in a studio, and across the road you can see an Ethiopian Restaurant called Lalibella and a shop called Aspire (not sure what that is).

It's relatively close (30 mins stroll) to Highgate Tube Station which is shown in the film, and at one point Charlotte Rampling is seen walking over Archway Bridge (aka "Suicide Bridge" to locals).

We'd need a published source, I guess, although I just found it on google street maps easily enough.Paulturtle (talk) 04:20, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

The opening scenes are set around Clapham Common - we get to see Carmen Tapas (6 Clapham Common) then Birksen (40 Old Town between a Starbucks and the Prince of Wales pub), all easily verifiable on Google Streetview. Tony's house is presumably supposed to be relatively nearby. It's unclear whether his shop is supposed to be nearby or whether he gets the Northern Line up to Tufnell Park where the actual filming location is, although we later see him eating his lunch on a park bench in what looks like Clapham Common again, and doesn't look like anywhere I recognise in Tufnell Park.

For what it's worth, while he's eating his lunch he is on the phone to his ex-wife Margaret, who is walking outside the Law Courts by Aldwych, and a Number 4 bus trundles past, on which she could hop to visit him in Tufnell Park if she were so minded.

Almost all of this is invented for the film - the original novella has him doing some charity/voluntary work, but no camera shop, and no mention of where in London he is based. Adrian Jr. is based somewhere up the Northern Line, in a part of London which Tony doesn't know (Highgate in the film). And Margaret isn't a QC either.Paulturtle (talk) 08:35, 24 June 2020 (UTC)