If we don’t meet or if we lose the one person we are meant to be with, then our life is not worth living. Everything becomes meaningless. This is the key premise of the film. It is wrong. But if you suspend your critical faculties and assume this idea is correct for the duration of the film, A Single Man is a beautiful exploration of the premise. Fashion designer Tom Ford brings his aesthetic sensibilities and his 23-year experience of living with one and the same gay partner to direct a film that is nothing like what the enticing trailer made you believe. I want to live in the house of lead character, an Englishman (Colin Firth) who has taken up the teaching of literature in some LA college, calls his own. (I now wish more directors had studied interior design like Tom Ford!) Colin Firth delivers a spectacular performance. Aesthetically the film appealed to me more than its 1998 cousin, Gods and Monsters.