The film is non-judgmental about its characters, and just four years after gay male relationships were partially legalised in the UK, its positive portrayal of a happy homosexual man was groundbreaking. Eagle-eyed viewers will spot the film debut of Daniel Day-Lewis , in a small role as a vandal. Both are magnificent, and both won Oscars. The two have a complicated relationship — they have sex with each other, and later find out they have been having a relationship with the same man, a rich baron.