Brideshead revisited, badly, spitefully
Class, establishment, sexuality, privilege, money, and the power it purchases, are some of the key elements in Evelyn Waugh's majestic Brideshead Revisited. But one of his main concerns in the story is faith, in the form of Roman Catholicism, and, sadly, the latest film version of the book trashes this central notion to the point of caricature. In fact, its ham-handed ridiculing of the faith of the dysfunctional Flytes and its wretched mangling of Waugh's numinous language are such that the born-again atheist Christopher Hitchens is compelled to come to the aid of the afflicted.
