#and you wrote this so beautiful and poetically
I feel incredibly lucky to be able to see Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan playing Colin and Penelope. They have such a perfect chemistry, and they’re delivering so much subtext in every single interaction their characters share.
And isn’t that one of the most beautiful things about Polin itself as a love story? The absolute subtext and hidden symbolism under every single word they utter, every single look they share, every single chance they get to touch each other while spinning around the dance floor. Isn’t one of the most beautiful things about Polin to see, no the denial, but feelings being so rooted to their core and their existence that they tend to overlook them and not be able to analyse them fully?
Isn’t it tragically beautiful for Penelope to love Colin so much and so fervently, and for Colin to love her as desperately as soon as he sorts out his own inner monologue and sees her for the person she is? Isn’t it wonderful to see the heat in Colin’s gaze when he looks into Penelope’s eyes and then call her his dear friend, as if he hadn’t burned for her just by looking at her and contemplating her wit? Isn’t it beautiful, the yearning and the love and the passion and all the resolutions? Isn’t it beautiful that they’re one and everything, the childhood crush and the love epiphany, the star-cross lovers and the happily ever after, the opposites attract and the soulmates? Isn’t it beautiful that their love is as pure as the first snow and as mature as the last ray of sun before the night?
Isn’t it beautiful that we have both Nicola and Luke fleshing them out so well that it feels like utter bliss? I’m so proud of them, and so happy to have them playing Polin.
