By the final credits, I was overcome by the desire to hear the voice of an old friend
’ evocation of the white heat of their youthful bromance. No emotions land as ferociously as those memories of young adulthood. It’s that period of your life when friendship is an eternal bond and the future seems to stretch on forever.
Thinking back to his younger days, Jimmy was, in a way, mourning the loss of that version of himself as much as he was his terminally-ill friend. Mayflies also touched on the way relationships can change over time. In the 1980s, Tully was the head-turning charismatic one, Jimmy the pale introvert. Fast forward three decades and Jimmy was living the big life in London, while Tully seemed haunted by the spectre of the dreams he had not fulfilled.
Death and the fraying of life-long friendships are fraught subjects, especially at this time of year. So it was a real achievement that, adapted by Andrea Gibb and directed by Peter Mackie Burns took a bittersweet story and spun it into something profound and even uplifting.
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