I went to see God's Own Country not knowing it was a gay love story. "Farmhand from Romania finds love in the UK" I'd put in a nutshell from my hurried search online to find a movie to go to that day, and that was interesting-sounding enough for me. I'd assumed that the farmhand was a woman. God's Own Country was not what I was expecting nor hoped to see, but boy did I love this movie. What eventually struck me about the relationship that the two main characters formed, and how it all panned out, was how similar it was to what I went through with my wife. What ultimately struck me was that love is love, a love story is a love story, people are people, and it's just dumb to assume that what homosexuals go through is much different than what heterosexuals go through. It may be different on average in the sense that it takes courage to have a gay love life, even a clandestine one, considering that it's often seen in families and communities as an aberration. But having the courage and determination to love whom you want to love, and facing and overcoming the adversity which stems from that, is such a common theme in love stories about young adults that gays certainly can't claim that as their own. God's Own Country is a human relationship saga, primarily, and oh yeah the two lovers happen to be gay sheep farmers, which gives the film some spice.
Review of God's Own Country
