OMG I JUST NOTICED
In this shot Jacob is in the background, looking around and his expression denotes confusion.
At first I was like “Well, of course he is confused! It’s not everyday that you get to see the magnificent Castle of Hogwarts”
Then I rewatched the trailer and I remembered:
In the Goblet of fire Hermione explains why magical schools have such a secrecy about their locations. She tells Harry that Hogwarts has a magical protection surrounding it: An illusion that makes muggles see some devastated scary ruins to keep them away.
So while the wizards are in the front ready to storm in and accomplish whatever mission they have at Hogwarts, Jacob is in the back like “u guys the fuck r we doing here this place scary smh”
It’s about this dude Henry who’s an artist living in New York,
and he has to go back to his hometown in Montana to take care of his grandfather who just recently had a stroke and is wheelchair-bound.
Things are all fine and dandy until Henry finds out that his old best friend from high school, as well as object of his unrequited affections that he’s never really been able to let go of is also back in town. His name is Dean. He’s there with his two sons to recoup from a recent divorce from his wife.
Henry is extremely frazzled by seeing his long-time crush after so many years, but they spend a lot of time together over the passing weeks and seem to fall into their old friendship very easily. Perhaps a little too easily….??? hmmm???
And with everything with Dean happening, Henry can’t be blamed that he’s entirely oblivious to Pike, the man who runs the local general goods store.
It’s obvious to us (and the whole damn town) that Pike’s been head over heels for Henry since high school, but is painfully shy. He can barely talk to Henry at all and it’s the cuTEST GODDAMN THING oh lord help me from this movie.
Throughout the movie, Pike can’t seem to help himself from wanting nothing more than to make Henry happy from afar. He’s supposed to be delivering food cooked by one of the older ladies in town to Henry and his grandfather’s house to eat every night, but Pike cooks his own, exceptionally better meals, and delivers those instead and tells no one.
Now, Henry does notice Pike, and something about him catches his attention. Even if he doesn’t understand why yet. He tries to invite him to stay for dinner almost every night in an attempt to get him to open up, but Pike only becomes more closed off when he notices what’s going on between Henry and Dean.
I’ll stop there, as I don’t want to give the whole thing away, but I can’t leave this without talking about the town’s residents in this movie. This place is 100% one of those little towns where everyone knows each other as well as their business, you have nosy little old ladies, dudes who do nothing all day but sit on the porch of the corner store and smoke a pipe, and they all go to church on Sundays.
AND YET, not only is this movie void of any homophobia from any character, basically the whole freaking town is all up in this whole love triangle. They support Pike so much that there’s even scenes where they all play matchmaker with him and Henry. They root for them in the goofiest, most loveable way.
SO BASICALLY, this is a silly romantic comedy, except gay. It’s all super lighthearted comedy with tiny bits of drama thrown in. No one dies!!!! No one is killed or commits suicide and has a 100% happy ending!!! The three main guys are just normal guys!!! There’s not a stereotype to be found here!! anD ONE OF THEM IS NATIVE AMERICAN. No seriously guys it hurts me that not everybody knows about this movie. I discovered it when I was in middle school in our video store’s tiny little LGBTQ section, and must have rented it 20 times throughout the years before I finally bought it. I know this movie almost frame by frame I’ve watched it so many times because it’s just so disgustingly cute and always makes me happy. NOW, this movie isn’t perfect. It’s got some clunky acting, weird.. I guess artsy moments that don’t make sense, and crosses into the line of cheesy quite a few times, BUT, that’s really not important. This is treated exactly as if it were a het romantic comedy. Their being gay has nothing to do with the overall story, and is never brought up save for a small plotline where Henry is guilty with himself for never coming out to his grandfather. But overall, more LGBTQ movies need to be like this, it’s just way too rare.
GO WATCH IT YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID. Sadly, the only way I know to get ahold of it is to just buy the DVD. But it’s fairly cheap on Amazon! And even cheaper if you buy it used on there, but either way I promise it’s worth it to own. Like I said, I think I kept our video store in business from my renting it so many times.
Oh, and I hope you enjoy country music to some extent because this has the countriest soundtrack of all time.
In Leinster Garden, we got in a single scene the
entire summary of John and Mary’s relationship.
Remember, a disguise is always a
self-portrait but how others perceive it also says a lot about how they see
you.
And I get a feeling that we were given a
glimpse of the ending and what is exactly going on in the real world.
Tell me, do you remember
when John was becoming Sherlock Holmes?
It was a
long time ago, I know, but once upon a time, there was a man called John
Watson. And this man one day met Sherlock Holmes.
He was
deeply fascinated by him, he was without a doubt the most extraordinary man he’s
has ever met. That wasn’t to say he was stupid, no.
He was only
an army doctor, murders weren’t quite yet his division.
But he
tried.
Boy did he
try.
Sometimes
his mistakes were just plainly embarrassing.
Sometimes he
was just wrong and his deductions lead nowhere.
But he’s
always managed to pull through.
Because he
is learning.
There is a
reason why John Waston is the best conductor of light that exists. He might not
get everything on the first try, but his thinking always leads Sherlock to the
right path. They are on the same wavelength.
And there is
also a good reason why some foes mistook him for his friend.
JOHN: I’m
not actually… (Still delirious) I’m not Sherlock Holmes.
THE OPERA
SINGER (Smiles, she doesn’t believe him): Forgive me if I do not take your word
for it.
(She
made a strong case, didn’t she?)
Remember
when John Watson was becoming Sherlock Holmes?
How he assumed it was Sherlock Holmes she needed and yet took the case instead? Remember
when Mary had no other choice than to become his Watson?
HOLMES: You
are not coming.
WATSON: Then
you are not going.
JOHN: You can’t
come (…)
MARY: You
can’t go (…)
Remember
that Mr Holmes thought Mary was the sane one and at the same time implied he
thought John was the extraordinary one?
Don’t forget
that John Watson is smarter than he looks. Don’t you dare forget he’s pretty
damn smart. He’s more than just a puppy to trot behind Sherlock Holmes. No matter what
Mary may think, this is only the image he sells to the public.
WATSON: Listen, I’m
happy to play the fool, for you. I will run
along like some halfwit, if that’s what you need.
The dummy isn’t who he is. It is what she saw (a fairly obvious trick) but it never was what he was. He wasn’t playing the idiot, he was being Sherlock Holmes.
Because, no
matter what Mary may believe, if Sherlock can learn to become more like John,
the reverse is also true. John Watson can be Sherlock Holmes when he needs to.
And he can wear
the coat and fool her.
John Watson
can perfectly be the Sherlock Holmes to her Moriarty. There never was any dummy,
he was just taking Sherlock’s place while he was away.
And Mary
never noticed that until it was too late.
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