Yea I remember that and in the book I hear those two women were lovers. But when I saw it in the 90s this message wasn’t constantly pushed. At least not that I saw
There's a Swedish movie called "As It Is In Heaven" which covers most of this same subject matter (sort of), but in a more contemporary setting, and way, way better...
No lesbians per se, but the whole "rural domestic abuse", bullies, discrimination, etc. - a lot of the same... Tropes, I guess.
I think my emotional reaction to that is the same as a lot of people's apparent reaction when watching "Tomatoes" for the first time, so that's... Interesting.
It's just not so... "On the nose" about it, if you ask me. Or maybe it's a cultural difference? Not sure.
Maybe Swedes find the stereotypes in "Heaven" as jarring as I find the stereotypes in "Tomatoes" (as an outsider, but knowing people from both places). Maybe not. But certainly... I found "Tomatoes" much harder to sit through, at least personally, lol...
While it still exists (it's been erased off Youtube, and this was essentially the only "original", at least for the audio, that I could find):
https://vimeo.com/474549641
This is probably one of the two most important bits from the movie, and it's the, uhh, abused woman, singing about freedom, naturally.
I found that quite moving, at the time (yes, it's in Swedish. And yes, subtitles lol).
Yea I remember that and in the book I hear those two women were lovers. But when I saw it in the 90s this message wasn’t constantly pushed. At least not that I saw
There's a Swedish movie called "As It Is In Heaven" which covers most of this same subject matter (sort of), but in a more contemporary setting, and way, way better...
No lesbians per se, but the whole "rural domestic abuse", bullies, discrimination, etc. - a lot of the same... Tropes, I guess.
I think my emotional reaction to that is the same as a lot of people's apparent reaction when watching "Tomatoes" for the first time, so that's... Interesting.
It's just not so... "On the nose" about it, if you ask me. Or maybe it's a cultural difference? Not sure.
Maybe Swedes find the stereotypes in "Heaven" as jarring as I find the stereotypes in "Tomatoes" (as an outsider, but knowing people from both places). Maybe not. But certainly... I found "Tomatoes" much harder to sit through, at least personally, lol...
While it still exists (it's been erased off Youtube, and this was essentially the only "original", at least for the audio, that I could find): https://vimeo.com/474549641
This is probably one of the two most important bits from the movie, and it's the, uhh, abused woman, singing about freedom, naturally.
I found that quite moving, at the time (yes, it's in Swedish. And yes, subtitles lol).