get thee to a nunnery

if i had a catholic homie i'd be doing this all the time

but there is also the unspoken layer to this character which is the Hot Priest of it all and the implicitly queer casting choice of josh o'connor. this character and craig's (somewhat) openly gay detective keep being put in close quarters and engaging in far more physicality than we are used to seeing between blanc and his companions. there's this elephant in the room in the shape of father jud's unmentioned sexuality - where does it lie in his aforementioned scale of tolerance and rage? of course him embracing blanc at the end and the "all are welcome" sign indicates that he is accepting and welcoming of others, that's not even a question. but this movie posits him as a guy that scared himself with the strength of his emotions and ability to physically harm another man and now won't even indulge in playing detective with one but instead seems to want to dissociate into divinity and priesthood and helping other people (and it didn't escape my notice that all his favorite sinners in this film, martha, grace, louise and her mother - were all women). and i'm just like man. this guy is so scared of himself he thought he blacked out and killed another innocent man. whatever tolerance he's able to extend to other people barely seems to exist for himself. and i'm not supposed to think he's queer?

local gay detective keeps getting caught off-guard by hot priest in increasingly profound ways: the movie