Both their wives have since died, which means master and servant are further bonded by grief.
It is the country that holds them now.
Thirsk is a good hand; the villagers like him well enough.
‘Harvest’Jaclyn Martinez/Harvest Film Ltd
Quill is employed by one Edmund Jordan, the ultimate owner of this land since Kents wifes death.
The villagers know they have been betrayed, not least by themselves.
The invaders must be astonished, reflects Thirsk, at how meek we are.
Everyone is dirty, all the time.
It isnt Malicks heaven, even if it is all they know.
Nor are there any angels here.
Punishments are brutal; so is the harvest festival once enough drink has been taken.
A complex character, in other words, but with limited opportunities for conveying that complexity.
This is astory a story told by Athina Rachel Tsingari, moreover which means it has its own rules.
