Remarkably, and appropriately to the themes of the story, Davies does not shy away from the rawness of anger, sex, nudity and violence. I suppose this is the "memory realism" style I read about. He invigorates the senses in sight and sound, and we even almost feel the emotions of the characters and smell the hay, mist and mud. The director is obviously extremely experienced and capable at such historic United Kingdom stories. Anger, violence and hatred make them the lovelier for that. Kindness, love, nature and light endure when we let them. It is amazing to witness her transformations through the people she comes in contact with, the land and the emotions she feels. The story is told mostly through the eyes of the young woman, Chris, as she grows and experiences hardships as well as bliss. Intriguing characters include a sensual, pretty and bright young woman who loves the landscape and dreams of a better life, a strict and abusive farm family patriarch in desperate need of an intervention and anger management classes, and a young man turned bitter and cowardly by war and violence. It is said that nothing but the land endures, yet there is something about each of these characters – good and bad - that endures too. Firelight, swells of the North Sea, hayfields, rain, a wedding dinner by candlelight, mist, the morning sun, green mountains, Scottish song, clothing fashions from a hundred years ago and the writing of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, are brought to life.
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