Rule britannia blasting while Marlon Brando playing a "career fop" is ordered to shag a babe for king and country

Absolutely did not need to be 3 hours long

With something as vast as colonisation - in global scale, in time span, in the number of people affected - how do you tell that story? With so much destruction, how do you fully understand what has been lost?

The personal becomes universal.
Violence on the most intimate level.
History repeats and repeats again.

Beautiful, sad and mythic, I thought this was incredible. I think I need to sit with it a while and watch it again to understand everything going into it.

Movie somehow manages to feel queer & trans but also simultaneously heteronormative & transphobic ????

Joe Macbeth swigging milk in between homoeroticism and murder such a fucked up pathetic little guy