We just can’t have ANYTHING to ourselves can we?
It’s bad enough that we have the global media claiming some of our biggest actors, directors, writers and artists are English, but when it comes to films and TV shows we have a distinctive flair when it comes to producing art.
2015’s release of Brooklyn, a film directed by director John Crowley and based on the novel written by our very own Colm Tóibín saw Carlow native Saoirse Ronan fill the main role of Eilis, which in turn led her to be nominated for an Oscar.
As Brooklyn began gathering momentum in 2015, it lead many people to assume it was a British film however considering the direction, the lead actor and the original writer of the story are Irish, we would consider it 100% our own.
Rather disappointingly, it’s been brought to our attention that Brooklyn is currently listed under ‘Best of British’ on Netflix.
Twitter user Aoife Lawlor notified us to the scandalous placement of our favourite film.
#Brooklyn is down under the ‘Great Britain’ category on @NetflixUK……fix that shit now. pic.twitter.com/2zhAl6lB7B
— Aoife Lawlor (@Aoife_Lawlor) September 17, 2016
Twitter user Paulie B also found the same result while on a flight, which is extremely disheartening.
@Aoife_Lawlor @JOEdotie @Herdotie same on @British_Airways 🙁 pic.twitter.com/oBtQVm2Vn8
— Paulie B (@RiotPaulie) September 17, 2016
Being the nosy parker I am, I logged onto my own Netflix and found that, it is in fact, listed under British movies…
Meanwhile, the search ‘Irish movies’ even more sadly, holds no movies at all.
Following on from that, I searched the Wikipedia page of Brooklyn, only to find that Irish is the first name to describe the film. Hmmmm.
What’s the deal Netflix? Why do you hate us?
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