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ButWild Mountain Thymeisnot just charmless.

Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in Wild Mountain Thyme

It is genuinely confounding, a movie constantly working against itself to make its characters and their dilemma comprehensible.

He hates the farm but also feels inexorably tied to it.

Let them go extinct!

you might find yourself shrieking at the screen.

Its what these people deserve!

Time passes in surreal fits and starts.

But theres none of that winking or any trace of irony inWild Mountain Thyme.

They need that height to balance the truth and the goodness of women.

In the parlance of the film, this might all be categorized asblarney.

But itd be more accurate to call it bullshit.

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