Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

ohlabtechguy This is similar to Brokeback Mountain in a few ways. The principle characters are engaged in similar farming/ranching; they are masculine and they fall in love with one another while working together under the wide open sky. The primary differences are in time period, ending and cinematography. The scenes of farm life in GOC are drab, bleak and depressing; whereas, in BM, the scenes are majestic, colorful and uplifting. The ending in BM is sad and the one in GOC is happy. The time period is current in GOC and it is assumed there is less pressure on these sheep blokes to be straight and married. Overall, I liked the picture, but it was hard to understand the dialogue unless they were shouting. The Romanian actor had a thick accent and the Irish actor likewise had a tricky dialect to decipher. In BM, I found it implausible that two masculine, closeted, married gay men would have maintained a long distance affair for 20 years. It felt contrived to set up the emotion ending. In this movie, I found the relationship and ending to be more believable.

meadmorechairs This is not a gay film, but it is a masterful film about the transmission of love . Johnny, the main character just happens incidentally to be gay, a fact that is never hidden, nor challenged but is as grudgingly accepted as are other characteristics such as drunkenness by the other characters he relates to. Relates is hardly an appropriate term for the displays of his anger, frustration and resentment that is largely evident through his inability to acknowledge and communicate his feelings on his path to self-destruction. Enter the low status itinerant worker who becomes the catalyst that displays an alternative role model to Johnny as they by and large go about the mundanities of working on the farm. The magic woven by the quiet presence of this stranger is Shakespearian in its impact, with Biblical parallels. The love that has lain beneath the surface of each of the main characters emerges achingly slowly with subtlety and inevitability . As sure as the sun insinuates itself onto the frozen fields, the heads lift, the eyes open and the hearts beat louder than the ever present wind. Love is awakened, for the animals for the previously hidden beauty of the harsh landscape, and for each of the characters for each other. Each in their own way they begin to communicate the care they feel for everything and everyone around them. And not least is Johnnys salvation through discovering his repressed feelings for the farm the animals his disabled father, his stoic grandmother and his lover. But most of all he discovers self-love. And they all walk taller. This is not a gay film . It is a film about hope and it is portrayed on screen with as much love and as surely as if it was a love poem.

kristinadarlene Such a surprise. Love is not always perfect, and definitely not the typical movie. Great, great film. Do yourself a favor and watch this.

bettycjung 5/23/18. This reminds a lot of Brokeback Mountain, except the characters are more fleshed out here. Alec Secareanu plays Ledger's character here, the more emotionally connected one who is more comfortable with his gayness, while O'Connor plays Gyllenhaal's character who is more into the s**ual aspects of relationships. But, at least for O'Connor he gets to see a happier end when he owns up to his own gayness and his attraction to Secareanu. Great movie about how tenuous relationships can be.