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Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Aug 11, 2014 ^^
Rating : 4.806 (403/7,908 LTDR)
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please ignore the negative comments and please see this film, very funny and I admire the courage these guys had at the time raising money not accepted at first then made friends who in return supported each other. In the end of the film I was crying with joy (yes I was) people loved it and clapped- we were all impressed! I will be getting this on DVD by far one of this years best British/ Welsh movie
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One of the actors was really shining in this movie according to me and that was the guy who played Mark Ashton. How he portrayed a activist who inspired those around him and sacrificing anything for his cause was so convincing. There was like a constant flame in his eyes that showed how much he hated injustices and how much motivation and drive he had to do something about it, almost to the point to where he would seem mad to those around him. I've seen people like that in real life, you feel like nothing can stop them in their way. Also how he invest everything into his activism forgetting everything else, which eventually could break any person. Such brilliant portrayal, I am so impressed.
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It was fantastic, probably the best film of 2014. What made it even better was I had no expectations going to see this movie and heard almost nothing about it. It's movies that surprise you like that are the ones that stick with you for a long time. I came out feeling up lifted and happy. Wonderful!
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i wish i had the lesbian summoning powers of that woman 2:17
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This was or is one of the most astonishing movies I have ever seen in the year 2014 or even starting this new century. I could not believe of the excitement and performances in this picture. You don't have to be gay or support gay in order to enjoy this picture. Why? Because were are in 2015 now and times have changed. I expected this film to involve sex, drugs, relationships and tragedy. It was better than that, it was about true events of gay activists who know what it is like to be disowned and not accepted in their own community helping another community get back on their feet. It shows that gay people are fun and exciting to be around and don't let others beat them down. What an amazing picture and full of life, one of the best of the century!
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The film is phenomenal, working-class art. For commercialism sake, the film makers obscured Mark Ashton and Mike Jackson's backgrounds. Both men were communists and members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Ashton was the general-secretary of the Young Communists League of the CPGB. To those of us who know, we'll recognize some of the iconography in Ashton's apartment and on his clothes, even though no mention is ever made of these.
Among a few pivotal scenes was at the very end, before the United Mineworkers appear in their hundreds at the 1985 Gay Pride Parade to support the people who had supported them. The Parade organizer approaches Ashton and tells him there will be no politics in the parade, no banners. Ashton and his comrades have sewn dozens of red flags they're carrying. "We're tried of politics," the parade organizer says. Not much is made of this exchange, which rightly pisses Ashton and Jackson off to no end, but this tension reflects the tension that gay pioneers, like Harry Hay and, later Leslie Feinberg fought. Hay had been with the Communist Party USA and Feinberg with Workers World Party, and assimilation and accommodation to gain the acceptance of heterosexuals was an anathema to their visions of the broader class struggles.
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@themason695
9 years ago
Those saying this is too gay or not gay enough probably haven't seen it. It's about being human. Good and decent humans. Period. See this film.
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