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#SilverScreenBlack: 'A Field in England' (2013)

(UK, 91 mins)

(Supra) Mario's rating: 3.5/5 (loaded muskets)

The Stoat Locker: Four deserters flee the English Civil War, and find just as much violence and witchcraft in their wandering.

- Best quote🥇:
"Whilst we live in fear of hell, we have it."

- Best depressing quote 🙁:
"I never had so many friends as I do in this field."

- Best bookworm quote 📔:
"'Tis true, I have been mostly amongst books. I find pages easier to turn than people."

- Best hygiene quote ✋:
FRIEND: "You're a wise sort, you. You think about a thing before you touch it."
WHITEHEAD: "Is that not usual?"
FRIEND: "Not in Essex."

- Best survival advice 🌳:
CUTLER: "How did an idiot like you come to stay alive for so long?"
FRIEND: "My commanding officer says I have fresh air between my ears. And fresh air is good for a man's constitution, is it not?"

- Best 17th century lullaby 💤:
# I dreamed a dream but yesternight,
Thy father slain in foreign fight.
He, wounded, stood beside my bed.
His blood ran down upon thy head.
He spoke no word but looked on me.
Bent low and gave a kiss to thee.
Baloo, baloo, my darling boy,
Thou'rt' now alone thy mother's joy.