God's Own Country

This is an incredibly made movie for any who like a nice romantic movie. Yes, it’s primarily targeted to the gay community, but it’s still a well made movie that most people will enjoy. In some ways, it’s very similar to a European version of “Brokebake Mountian.” That’s been mentioned by several other reviewers, but this movie ends on a much happier note. Not to give to much away about this movie, there are some scenes that are sexual in nature, as there should be in any type of a romantic movie. Nothing X-rated by any means. It’s a great story with a great ending which is extremely hard to find in movies in this genre! The movie takes place in the U.K. and it has a lot of beautiful scenery and extremely realistic qualities that make you feel like your watching someone’s life story, not just a movie. It’s not like most films targeted toward the gay audience where it just ends and you ask yourself or your significant other, “What just happened?” It’s not one of those movies where you either feel like the production company ran out of money or somehow you missed the whole point of the entire movie. We have purchased far too many films in this genre where you devote a couple of hours or less of time only to be left without any idea as to how the story you just watched truly ends. They Just start rolling the credits and you are wondering, “Well, what happened?” It happens so often that it’s become a running joke in our home that when a movie just ends, one of us always says, “I guess they ran out of money!” This movie is great for those who want a great romantic movie that’s made well, has substance, great acting, and has an actual ending to the movie. It’s not that typical movie with just a bunch of naked guys running around with no real plot to the movie. We’ve watched this movie several times as it’s that good, unlike many others we’ve purchased and only watched once. This movie stars the actor Josh O’Connor who also stars in the well made and very interesting PBS series “The Durrell’s in Corfu” where he plays a young writer. He shacks up with an older woman whom he spends most of his days in bed with. It’s a very good series and the books this interesting show is based on are equally as good! I’m extremely impressed with O’Connor’s ability to play diverse roles that many other actors would never consider. It shows a great range of talent and the ability to play roles without feeling like they will get typecast by a part in one movie. More actors are not afraid to play a gay role and it just proves that gay people should be seen as equals just as heterosexuals are in the world. Love is love!

When I first bought this movie I purchased it because the storyline ad sounded promising, and when I watched it and the first 20 or 30 minutes seemed to drag along with rather dark and bleak scenery (much of the going-on happening during nighttime), but enjoyable, yet not really sure where it was going; but WOW! did it turn out to be one of the best gay themed movies I have ever seen (Brokeback Mountain, Call me by my name, & others included in the best movie categories); For sure one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES; and being the romantic that I am I did well up some serious tears near the end of the movie; I can definitely see myself watching this movie over and over during the coming years. Great storyline, well written, good acting, good directing and just a plain "feel good" movie; Just shows that gay people can have true life changing romances like any other group of people, since so many gay movies seem to focus on sex, sex, sex, but here we get the hot sex and a great movie to boot; but don't get too disappointed if the movie starts out slow and does not really seem to prick your interest for the first 20 minutes or so; Once the new farm hand joins the cast the storyline really picks up. All in all a good review for all actors involved; I will look for more movies by this same director in the future.

God's Own Country is a remarkable, profoundly touching film, perhaps the best movie ever made about two men falling in love. That fact is important, but it is not the whole story, it is the real thing, a work of art that that attends to the world it inhabits acutely, every word heard or spoken in it concrete, deeply felt, penetrating, every gesture full of emotion and the wildly, complexly human. I would write about it more fully, but let me settle for just a few instances of what makes it so special. There is a scene in it when Georghe touches, holds, Johnny, so carefully, so slowly and gently, that he is, at heart, bringing him through his fingers and hands into a first experience of love, of what such tactility, such silent tenderness in a deep sense means. I have never seen anything remotely like it in a movie, rarely managed over all these years, despite much trying, to find it any writing: a man being allowed, being brought to feel love through another man by touch alone. How extraordinary the flesh is in this movie, like the wonder of the wool of a dead eviscerated lamb being turned into a coat for a lamb that has no mother, so it might suckle. Gemma Jones. Ian Hart. Step mother, harsh, stroke ridden, difficult father. There is more feeling expressed through their eyes than in the whole of Call Me by Your Name, of most any other recent movie. Simple things, a cup of food held out to be salted by another, a brief touch of a finger to a lover's hand, gesture which the latter than sees he might use with his father, for a finger to skim the skin of his arm as he lies in a hospital bed. And the two lead actors, especially Josh O'Connor as Johnny. There is one moment, among dozens and dozens of others as miraculous, when his father asks him, if the ways of the farm were changed, he would be happy. And Johnny looks up at at him where he sits in his wheel chair overlooking the valley below, stares at his father, as if for the first time seeing with the love he has discovered inside him, around him, from Georghe, carefully looking, his cheeks stretched tight by his jaw, and says, "I think I could.” This is film making of the highest order because it puts into the transient moments of human contact the whole of the best of human possibility, despite the world's being so punishingly harsh over and over. It is the lyricism of stone and mud, of still born calves, of the arduousness of expressing anything one actually feels and wants and can be, where the beauty of the world is bound to its suffering, not just humanity's but all of it, in the muck of it, in the almost ruined self of an almost ruined Johnny finding through another some reason for his being alive at all. And that is what might be called transcendence.

Tenia tiempo buscando esta pelicula y por fin la encontré y a un buen precio, llegó en el tiempo establecido y sin ningún defecto, no tengo ningun problema en que no venga con subtitulos o idioma en español

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This story unfolds slowly but deftly leading you into the world of a Yorkshire small holder and the bleakness of his world. It is only through his discovery of other possibilities that we see bright shining hope where none had been before.

This was an interesting and honest view of two men who initially developed a friendship and it gradually evolved to loving each other. I think it was a realist look at a homosexual relationship , devoid of all the guilt and incrimination and judgment that is usual in films that deal with this subject. It was shipped in the promised timeframe and arrived fully intact. Definitely worth owning in your collection of DVDs

Great settings, story development captivating and sincere performances by fresh new actors make this film worthy of praise and support that will encourage new directors to use similarthematic material