thinking long and hard about this line after the end of all of us strangers... Andrew Haigh pay for my therapy.
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The thing that absolutely destroyed me in all of us strangers was that Harry died alone. He tried to reach out, and it wasn't his fault, nor Adam's. But still, he died lonely, his body forgotten by his family until this one neighbor, his lover, went looking for him days later. He was so young and died alone. And it kills me. It kills me.
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Andrew Scott & Paul Mescal as Adam & Harry in All of Us Strangers (2023)
"You alright?"
"Yeah, yeah. Just haven't done this... I haven't done this in a while, I have to remember to breathe."
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Since watching All of Us Strangers I've been thinking Harry's Northern (Leeds) and what it means, at least to me. (I know this is something that Mescal chose to do, rather than something specific in the script, but still).
Generally any North of England accent has been associated with one or more of these three things: criminality, stupidity or aggression.
Within the stupidity there's this associated idea that Northern men have no emotional intelligence, or the ability to verbalise love and care.
When Harry comes to Adam's door he says something like "Am I scaring you?" He's drunk, and he realises that this plus how strong he's coming on to Adam is going to come across badly. But to me, at least, he's probably also aware his accent marks him out as threatening in a way someone with an RP accent wouldn't be (even to Adam with his Irish accent).
Harry's a queer man adrift in London where his accent is going to be at best mimicked 'comedically' and at worst come with incredibly negative baggage. It's another way that he doesn't fit in.
But then we see who he actually is: demonstrative and verbalising his care and softness for Adam. To have someone with that 'rough' accent acknowledging and understanding another's pain - "it happened a long time ago." "I don't think that matters" - was so refreshing for me.
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