In that sense, two of the film's most important characters are Jonathan Blake and Gethin Roberts, respectively played by Dominic West and 'Fleabag''s Andrew Scott. (via Pink News), with gay men as the targets of particular social and political stigma. After all, this was a time in which queer folks still faced active legal persecution across the U.K.
Despite its accessibility and feel-good rhythms, the Matthew Warchus-directed film is also a powerful political statement, which deftly explores the hardships faced by queer folks and miners in 1980s England, and the ways in which their struggles - with police, with public opinion, with Thatcherism - both differed and dovetailed into solidarity.
