rosabiaz replied to your post: ‘pride’ (2014 dir. matthew warchus) is a very...
I WAS LITEARLLY JUST THINKING Carol was Good but … really let’s be real i’ve had enough moody gays to last a lifetime
IT’S JUST SO.....triumphant? like obvs it’s tinged with sadness because it was a very real period of history but also like...........it was a very real period of history? that had a meaningful impact on people’s lives and people in the UK?
like, this country is so exhausting to live in that it just feels great to be able to watch something based off of something that actually happened here and actually.....feel proud? which, it’s called ‘pride’, so like, obvs. but like. it’s amazing to watch something that pin points ‘here. here is where we made progress, even if it might look small, or big, or whatever’ and that feels very powerful.
and like, obviously it feels great watching films like that about any country, but there’s something about it being set here, and it being a part of our history, and our country, that just kind of...connects, in a nice way that i didn’t really think i was missing until i watched it.
i skim-read an autostraddle article about it like 2 days ago or whatever about how , for a film that’s so largely ignored globally, its symbols and its history have, since the film was released, become staples of UK pride events , and how powerful that is. and it’s true!! at pride this year i saw a group march with a huge banner saying “LGSR: Lesbians & Gays Support the Refugees”.
idk it’s just. i love that film and the impact it had, even if it was just an impact on our country and not anywhere else. and i would love for it to have an impact elsewhere too. it deserves to be a classic and to have the recognition carol got