#unwelcome

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[johannestevans]

So yeah Unwelcome is fucked up. These poor middle class English ppl are plagued by dirty nasty violent povvos in England - and even though the main dude is a white skinhead type, his sidekicks are both very dark-skinned men

So they move to Ireland and still are plagued by nasty violent povvos

It stands out to me that everybody else in town is fine and charming and happily welcoming to this english pair - even the fucking priest is pretty gentle about the MC saying she previously had an abortion - and have culchie accents of varying thicknesses

But the mean evil povvo family?

No no no, they have thick working class dublin brogues, bc these are povvos, not irish ppl

And the film specifically has the two main kids direct a tirade at the main english boy where they reference a LOT of irish history and english colonial violence, and are depicted as being villains for that

And then finally. W the help of the mysterious fae folk from the woods, they kill this entire povvo family

And then when the main woman rips out the eyes of the previous captive human woman and slaughters one of the redcaps, she is literally baptised in blood

And all the redcaps cheer and WORSHIP her. They all bow to her and scrape across the floor

And it's like. Cool cool cool. So not only have this nice middle class family won out over the gross poor working class ppl, they have ascended to their rightful place as leaders of a servile under race

They were completely in the right over the poor people throughout, yes, they were rude and snobbish and judgemental and weird, but the dirty poors were the violent ones, and now they get their just reward, to raise a family w a race of lesser people serving them

I have never seen a more disgustingly English ideology in a film. Movies i've watched about sailors "exploring" the world have been less fundamentally and sickeningly English - with more nuance! - than this one lmao

[queenoquestions]

people that state their opinion as fact

are dangerous & unwelcome here

qq.

[howifeltabouthim]

' . . . I told you you must not return. I meant ever.' 'Ever is a long time . . . '

Mary Balogh, from The Secret Pearl

[blossomalee]

Original artwork

Inspo: Unwelcome (2023)

[thatsbelievable]

[numberonefestivaltiger-blog]

To know grief

you must first live

Only after experience

and love

does grief come knocking—

unwelcome in your house,

but already at home,

laying messy claim

to what is yours.

Grief settles in,

makes itself comfortable,

and begins

asking the impossible.