God's Own Country
As a friend on Facebook warned me that this is a dull movie , so I have opened up all my senses to look carefully what's going on on the screen, since the first scene to the last one with the music and final titles. Before I started I needed to question myself: what identifies us as tribe? Gay people. Sub-gender. People. Peoples . Human. Humans.
Rural England. A boy on the farm who's father is crippled and his mom has gone somewhere , lives with his grandma and survives everyday trying to gulp his own sexuality through binge drinking. A typical loser as someone would describe this character.
I read the second part of the Facebook post where the same friend said that nothing happens. It's true. Nothing happens apart from the appearing of the second protagonist, the Romanian worker Gheorghe who's there to help in the farm for few weeks. So, yes, nothing happens on everyone's expectations with the gay-cliches where there aren't included the "usual suspects" such as : AIDS , gay-pride, clubs and drugs, fetishes, tops and bottoms, screaming, mobile phones, Grindr, no Hollywood polished TomFords, no gay chic , no Wilde, no Thomas Mann, no 'intellectualize my sadness', no slogans or catch-phrases and no hidden subplots. What you see is what you get. Hard work, home, work, home, and voila: LOVE on the screen. Yesterday's loser has got a meaning in his life and this is the message of the movie. Not that love exists, because we all know that but that he has let this love touch his heart and how it changes his life.
This is not Brokeback Mountain II because it speaks about the modern culture although this part is carefully avoided by the filmmakers. Not that it doesn't exists anywhere in small towns and villages around the world but because of its lack of the typical crescendo which everyone expects to put in the mouth of the gay-stereotyping.
The boy's life has no meaning until the love of the Romanian guy comes to wake him up and put a fresh scent in his existence. This is a little movie and I know it will be avoided by the critics like it happened with Lilting. I feel very special when I see movies like this. There's no pretense here. It's only the love that steals the show. And I don't need more since I feel blessed with it.
The acting is superb and the camera work is beautiful. Few interesting facts about the movie is that the supposed Romanian language is actually Bulgarian and I recognised it by myself since I am Bulgarian too. All the graphic scenes with the animals are real and have been filmed closeby director's childhood home.
As a friend on Facebook warned me that this is a dull movie , so I have opened up all my senses to look carefully what's going on on the screen, since the first scene to the last one with the music and final titles. Before I started I needed to question myself: what identifies us as tribe? Gay people. Sub-gender. People. Peoples . Human. Humans.
Rural England. A boy on the farm who's father is crippled and his mom has gone somewhere , lives with his grandma and survives everyday trying to gulp his own sexuality through binge drinking. A typical loser as someone would describe this character.
I read the second part of the Facebook post where the same friend said that nothing happens. It's true. Nothing happens apart from the appearing of the second protagonist, the Romanian worker Gheorghe who's there to help in the farm for few weeks. So, yes, nothing happens on everyone's expectations with the gay-cliches where there aren't included the "usual suspects" such as : AIDS , gay-pride, clubs and drugs, fetishes, tops and bottoms, screaming, mobile phones, Grindr, no Hollywood polished TomFords, no gay chic , no Wilde, no Thomas Mann, no 'intellectualize my sadness', no slogans or catch-phrases and no hidden subplots. What you see is what you get. Hard work, home, work, home, and voila: LOVE on the screen. Yesterday's loser has got a meaning in his life and this is the message of the movie. Not that love exists, because we all know that but that he has let this love touch his heart and how it changes his life.
This is not Brokeback Mountain II because it speaks about the modern culture although this part is carefully avoided by the filmmakers. Not that it doesn't exists anywhere in small towns and villages around the world but because of its lack of the typical crescendo which everyone expects to put in the mouth of the gay-stereotyping.
The boy's life has no meaning until the love of the Romanian guy comes to wake him up and put a fresh scent in his existence. This is a little movie and I know it will be avoided by the critics like it happened with Lilting. I feel very special when I see movies like this. There's no pretense here. It's only the love that steals the show. And I don't need more since I feel blessed with it.
The acting is superb and the camera work is beautiful. Few interesting facts about the movie is that the supposed Romanian language is actually Bulgarian and I recognised it by myself since I am Bulgarian too. All the graphic scenes with the animals are real and have been filmed closeby director's childhood home.