Sweetland | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction. | dG1fc0o2WnRLaTJaQW8

Transcript

00:00Will you be coming to the meeting this afternoon?

00:13Wasn't planning on it.

00:17The government is offering a package to the residents of Sweetland to move anywhere in

00:21the province, but we will not move a soul out of here unless we have a commitment from

00:26everyone.

00:28I'll have to take a rain check.

00:30Don't leave it too long.

00:33Don't leave it too long.

00:38Some people say they was going to burn us out.

00:41Who said they were going to burn me out?

00:43No one directly, just people who spoke up.

00:46Must be hard for you, Moses, being in the king's seat on all this resettlement business.

00:52Can't imagine a lonelier spot.

00:56I never minded being alone.

00:59Will I have to go?

01:01Not as long as I live.

01:10You been getting any notes of me?

01:12Ransom notes, like with letters cut out of magazines.

01:15I wouldn't have checked here if you hadn't noticed.

01:20Truth be told, I think you're scared.

01:23Scared to let go of the place?

01:25Scared none of it meant anything?

01:27Jesus Christ, Moses, you've got to stop being so bullheaded about it.

01:30Why?

01:31Tell me why it is I've got to stop.

01:33You're an old man.

01:34We're all old men.

01:35Jesse!

01:37Jess!

01:39Jesse!

01:48It wouldn't be the end of the world, would it?

01:51To live somewhere else?

01:55You