Both Richard and I liked this film· Richard was a bit of a Wittgenstein groupie when he was in college, and pointed out various details of Wittgenstein's life placed by Jarman into the film but that one unfamiliar with Wittgenstein probably would not have noticed· "Johnny" identified in the film as Wittgenstein's lover was played by Kevin Collins, Jarman's partner· For a while, John Maynard Keyes and Wittgenstein shared a lover (Keynes was bisexual and sexually prolific)· Wittgenstein had several serious affairs with men – including mathematics student David Pinsent, philosopher Frank Ramsey, the much-younger medical student Ben Richards, and architect Francis Skinner·
The costuming and cinematography are spectacular.