sous-le-saule:

Reasons to watch God’s Own Country

  • Wonderful gay romance
  • Happy ending
  • The actors, my god!!!
  • The hands!
  • So many ways to say “I love you” without saying it
  • Breathtaking landscapes
  • Amazing photography
  • The feelings!!!
  • Realism
  • Vulnerability and caring
  • Non-gratuitous sex scenes, always used for characterization
  • Not only a romance, but a clever evocation of parent-child relationship, difficulty in expressing feelings, disability, ageing, harshness of farmers’ life, immigration, alcoholism, poverty, racism, homophobia, sabotage due to the fear of messing up, despair and hope

(Feel free to add)

Hear! Hear! And let me add

–  food as symbol of culture and caring

–  implication that people, even older people, have the potential for change

–  touches of humour

–  and I’ll probably think of some more just after I have posted this

fallenvictory:

In God’s Own Country, Gheorghe’s story plays second fiddle to Johnny’s, an apt reflection of the migrant experience.

No one asks Gheorghe how he got here or where he’s come from. Yet Alec imbues his performance with a sense of his past, undiscovered. “Gheorghe has developed some survival skills over time because he just wants to work and to be able to survive,” he explains. “That’s why he keeps his head down. Until a point…" 

— Alec Secareanu as Gheorghe Ionescu in God’s Own Country (2017)

Source: fallenvictory

blondecolinfarrell:

“That is the counterpoint between Flint and Silver — where Flint is so thoroughly defined by a backstory, he was going to be attracted to and be undone by someone who comes from the opposite place.”

—

Jonathan E. Steinberg, co-creator/executive producer of Black Sails

(via silverflintdaily)

#THAT’S THE THING #two of the only fictional pirates in the core cast #and it’s almost DICTATED that they be drawn to each other by the law of opposites #and flint draws on silver first out of bare necessity #and then out of camaraderie and then friendship and love #and isn’t it said? that nature abhors a vacuum? #that flint – the hurricane of unstoppable rage and history and heartbreak and righteous anger #would be drawn to a man who is nobody from nowhere belonging to nothing? #is john silver even his real name? #and THAT is the meaning of that quote in treasure island innit #‘flint his own self was feared of me. feared he was – and proud’ #and he wasn’t afraid of you physically or in any way #but because you were the null to his star – the only one that was able to love flint #and yet change him in turn and walk away from him in the end #even though it was terrible and horrible and heartbreaking [via @takiki16]

(via silverflintdaily)

jamesemcgraw:

“I was standing on the dock when, by the merest accident, I fell in talk with him. I found he was an old sailor, kept a public-house, knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again. He had hobbled down there that morning, he said, to get a smell of the salt. I was monstrously touched and, out of pure pity, I engaged him on the spot to be ship’s cook. LONG JOHN SILVER, he is called…”  

Treasure Island – Part Two: The Sea-cook

THIS IS WHY WE WRITE REUNION FICS.

Source: solomonlittle