Heartlands
Netflix | Amazon
Overall Rating: 8/10
Meets Expectations: +1
Apparent Rating: 9/10
Heartlands was a movie where the summary covered the basics without doing anything to convey why the movie was wonderful. First things first, it’s not about the American heartlands. There are no prairie states here. It’s set in England.
The premise is that a man’s wife leaves him for his best friend and he travels across the countryside on a motorbike (not like a motorcycle, one of the skinny kind with a lawnmower type engine that requires it not be taken on major highways) to try to get her back.
Along the way he interacts with a huge variety of people, some of whom are nice, some are insulting, some good things happen, some horrid things happen.
What really made this film for me though was the ending. Colin, the main character starts to question his assumptions about his life and comes to realize what he really wants.
I want to talk about the ending, so please don’t click the “more” unless you want to be spoiled.
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