get thee to a nunnery

[howlygrail]

[guy who has only ever seen black sails voice]: i’m getting a lot of black sails s4e9 vibes from this

[judblanc]

if i had a catholic homie i'd be doing this all the time

[judblanc]

[hugh grant voice] your um, your mother passed away recently and you – you went to a church to – to solve that "unsolvable" case, right, yes. quite right. and now you say you, um. want to, what, shag a priest? well, hm. i suppose that's – we all grieve in our own ways, i suppose... ah, what the hell. have at it, old chap

[orpheuslament]

is anyone else disgusted by the enormity of their desire or is it just me & richard siken

[judblanc]

charged as hell moment thank you daniel craig but this is also one of josh o'connor's most interesting acting choices in the movie To Me bc he doesn't play it goofy or flustered and instead wears the expression of an ex boxer that got beaten to a pulp by an older man a few days ago and is extremely not in the mood to be cornered in the dark by another erratic man. his feelings towards his fellow man seem to exist on a scale between tolerance and rage and even after finding his calling in helping people as a priest he keeps being put in situations where he has to try so so so hard to tamp down on that rage. which is of course the message of the movie: stop stoking your rage and learn tolerance etc etc.

but there is also the unspoken layer to this character which is the Hot Priest of it all and the implicitly queer casting choice of josh o'connor. this character and craig's (somewhat) openly gay detective keep being put in close quarters and engaging in far more physicality than we are used to seeing between blanc and his companions. there's this elephant in the room in the shape of father jud's unmentioned sexuality - where does it lie in his aforementioned scale of tolerance and rage? of course him embracing blanc at the end and the "all are welcome" sign indicates that he is accepting and welcoming of others, that's not even a question. but this movie posits him as a guy that scared himself with the strength of his emotions and ability to physically harm another man and now won't even indulge in playing detective with one but instead seems to want to dissociate into divinity and priesthood and helping other people (and it didn't escape my notice that all his favorite sinners in this film, martha, grace, louise and her mother - were all women). and i'm just like man. this guy is so scared of himself he thought he blacked out and killed another innocent man. whatever tolerance he's able to extend to other people barely seems to exist for himself. and i'm not supposed to think he's queer?

[judblanc]

local gay detective keeps getting caught off-guard by hot priest in increasingly profound ways: the movie

[dykecinema]

there should be a jesus on the cross emoji. not for any religious reasons. just so I can use it for every slight inconvenience.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]