THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN - Movie Review
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The war backdrop as a framing device is more than a burden weighing on them, a device connecting the characters to a sense of existential dread. We are told this is the Irish civil war which is a war fought between two former allies, two sides that were united fighting the English a year earlier and are now at war with each other. This mirrors the relationship of the two main characters.
She’s not at all versed in Irish history don’t sweat friend
A war that split families. Brothers fighting each other.
So that's why this movie seemed to make no sense.. because was makes no sense
@@marcus_ohreallyus really? I know nothing of Irish history but I thought there was enough in the film to understand it to a degree.
Without a backstory it was hard to care much about these friends no longer talking to each other. Maybe if the film was an hour long.
As an Irish person i see the war metaphor differently, it was the Irish civil war. Which came just after we won partial independence from British rule..
So the same men who fought together for independence were now killing and hurting each other.
I see that in the two main characters of this moving.. gleesons character cutting his own fingers off, to me, thats a strong metaphor for Irish killing each other which is ultimately hurting themselves and in the end nobody wins.
Also while they were feuding they still had to live in the same place aswell as deep down, still caring for each other. that's what alot of the Irish soldiers went through during the needless civil war of 1923.
At first I was mad because I never heard about this movie (are the marketing departments these days fully infiltrated by saboteurs? Or just incompetent to the point it doesn’t matter that they’re not?)…
But after seeing comments like yours I’m glad because I’m an American, and you better believe I’d have lacked the historical context to understand and fully appreciate the film. Gracias!
I saw the underlying message about the film not as death but finding purpose in life.
The policeman sees no purpose in it, his son thought finding love was our purpose, our hero thinks existence doesn’t need a purpose, his friend see accomplishment as purpose, his sister sees progress as purpose.
That being said, I enjoyed listening you talk about a lot of the things that I hadn’t considered after I finished watching it. Thank you.
The Irish civil war ripped families and friends apart. Straight after the war with Britain was won. I found it haunting hearing the gunfire in the background.
Civil war was between Ireland not Britain how did Britain win
@@Irish780 the war of independence against Britain preceeded the Irish civil war
@@Irish780 refresh your history buddy. War of Independence against Britain was first. Then the civil war, the effects of which are still seen in the Fianna Fail, Fine Gael political landscape. Are you American, by chance?
@@Hiram1000 American 😂 I'm a middle aged irishman born and bred ... if your talking British /// irish war its 800 years old where do you want to start
I really enjoyed this film. What struck me is that Colm seems resentful toward Padriach for being so content with his simple and "dull" life. He can't grasp why anyone would be ok with not leaving a legacy but doesn't see that Padriach's legacy is spending time with those he cares about. Those are the only people he cares about being remembered by.
This film is definitely my favorite of the year so far. It’s dark, yet subtly comical, but never in a way that’s distracting or out of place. It’s a movie that feels real and tragic. It impacted me emotionally and intriguingly. 10/10
The old woman in this film is the aesthetic I’m going to go for in my sunset years
Wow. It's great that you are still so active online, given your age.
crone 2da max
Spoilers: I agree it’s about humanity with strong tones about war and how we treat each other, and how out of pettiness we cut off our nose to spite ones face, or feel more comfort with anger than with depression. I also noticed how they made sadness or loneliness almost a taboo discussion. He scoffs when asked about loneliness not knowing she was asking for herself mainly, and colm has to go in private to a priest to talk about despair. Siobhan shows a lot of emotion when she feels teased about not being married or no one liking her but at the same time sees Dominic as a pity in his attempts to woo her. The old lady seems to be a blatant symbol of our own dark thoughts of suicide, sadness, and anger. When Padraic and Siobhan try to avoid or literally “hide” from her it’s symbolizing them trying to avoid those dark thoughts
The war is symbolic of their relationships - families and a people turned against each other and not really knowing why.
I love your discussion on the film. I felt the most affected by the juxtaposition of mentalities between the 2 leads:
Colm is in desperation to validate his life through the leaving of a legacy, which he has limited time to do as he believes he has wasted most of it in “pointless chatter,” and this consumes him to the point of depression.
While Pàdraic is content with his simple life surrounded by friends and family, but I think it’s this constant presence of loved ones that has provided him a distraction to never have to face the despair that his older friend is feeling, I think this is emphasized first when he dismissively chuckles when his sister asks if he “ever feel’s lonely?”
At the end of the movie, Colm seems to have accepted his position in life, and Pàdraic is just beginning to ponder it for the first time in his life.
The film is a very dark satanic film.
Colm is actually a demon pursuing Podraics soul.
If you understand their Talmudic Babylonian symbolism you will understand the true meaning behind the events but there are clues for anyone that cares to really look within the superficial story that caters for laughs. I will lay some of them out for those that care to really understand the demonic themes in Martins films.
Firstly we are given no background to the two main characters at all. For instance we don't know how long there has been friendship etc
At the beginning... Colm's house has a big red blood red door, very noticeable like Hell. It is very striking against the natural landscape. As we are shown inside, Colm's house is littered with pagan symbolism of demonic masks, imagery and distorted figures. Podraic looks confused and bewildered at this as if he has never seen it before because he hasn't.. He doesn't really know Colm. The director used this demonic symbolism before in In Bruges and there was always violence, evil and sinister agendas afoot.
Colm's companion is a dog, which is symbolic in the occult of a demonic companion. The black and white colour of the dog represents duality in Satanism. A split personality. This like the blood red door could be overlooked as coincidence but it is not in this case as proven by the demonology of Colms figurines, paintings and masks within. There are too many pieces of the puzzle coming together. He is obvious drawn to the dark side. The real Colm is being revealed.
Colm is a fiddle/violin/musician. A common practise in Ireland. In medieval times in England, Ireland, Scotland the fiddle/violin was associated with Satan/Pan, one who lures those onto the demonic left hand path. The left hand path is known in Satanism as their law/way of life so to speak.
We are given the impression that Colm suddenly lost interest in Podraic for no real rational reason except Niceness. It seems all about nothing like a pair of children losing friendship on a whim. Why would grown adults act like that? It is comical and immature. No rational person would do this especially the lengths Colm goes to to prevent communication. It is the behaviour of a disturbed man or something far more sinister as we shall see. Colm thinks Podraic is too nice in fact dull but the rest of the population are just as mundane except most aren't nice. The cop, the lady in the shop are examples. Podraic is a good soul like his sister and Dominic. He cares about people. He thrives on being compassionate and well, nice. As the movie progresses the resentment, loneliness and anger of rejection has started to take hold of Podraic. He is changing. So much so Dominic expresses his disappointment of Podraic, thinking he was one of the good ones. Only now does Colm regain interest. Only when Podraics niceness is disappearing. This is evident in the scene in the bar when Podraic gets drunk and angry. Colm actually expresses this as Podraics best moment. Negativity is a drug to the demonic side.
The fear, anger and solitude makes Podraic desperate. He wants to know why Colm is rejecting him. His persistent pursuit to find why he has been rejected leads to the horrific self mutilation of Colms left hand. Why does Colm perform such horrendous self butchery? Because of failure. Colm removed his left fingers because he was unable to influence Podraic to the left hand path, the dark side. Podraic, was a prize catch to Colm. To be able to lure someone so good to be bad is a great victory but because of his failure to do so, Colm is utterly despondent. He feels worthless and useless. This is why he removes his fingers. The left hand is symbolic.
The death of Podraics ass. In the satanic occult ritual sodomy is used to convert those and open up the gateway to hell. Its known as the death of the soul. The penis is referred to as the Babylonian finger. Every thing changed when Podraics donkey/ass was killed by a finger. It is a reference to ritual sodomy. This symbolises Podraics fall from grace. he has fallen away from the virtuous and ethical side of life.
Before the death of Podraics donkey we are shown a sinister scene of Colm lying in bed in foreboding light with the shadow of an X cast across his forehead. The X is a Satanic symbol. It is the third eye. 3 is known as Saturn/Satan, Binah on the Kabbalah tree
Colm is seen in the bar spilling blood all over the bar table and music sheets as he conducts a tune that resembles that of an hypnotic seance. The trepidation and disturbing scene is only broken by Podraics entrance.
I'll finish with this final clue. We see Colms house on fire. As Podraic looks through the window he witnesses Colm sitting, relaxed and not bothered by the flames engulfing him. This isn't a normal but by now you should realise who Colm really is. A demon after Podraics soul. He knows he won't die and that's why he doesn't try to escape and we see him unscathed on the beach.
Great film with dark undertones.
Thoughtful review. I'm happy to see people remark on how much depth a simple story like this can have.
Based on your review, and the comments, I watched it. It made sense to me only because it’s so much like how people are acting in society. The sudden inability of different worldviews to coexist, the willingness to destroy ourselves and people who we’ve always cared about even at the cost of our self-proclaimed goals. To me it felt like the parts where it doesn’t make sense make more sense than if it did, because it’s so accurate to how human nature doesn’t make sense. But as human beings we recognize it and understand it. The ending seemed to show how we end up after disgracing ourselves toward others, still having to move forward and learn to relate positively. And it is a good thing. God forbid we should be ever be as successful at getting rid of of problematic people in our lives as we’d sometimes choose. It shows how we can become so hateful even though both guys never stop being essentially nice guys who don’t really want to hurt anybody. It may have been set against the Irish Civil War, but it succeeded as a more universal allegory about the mean streak in human nature for me.
But I’m thankful for this review because a lot of it would have gone right over my head if you and your viewers hadn’t primed me to see the movie through a certain lens. Muchas gracias, to all who contributed.
Great review as usual! All I would take issue with is that I found the war in the background device very effective for tension, particularly because we do know generally why they’re fighting. Gleeson’s character mentions that it’s a civil war, as opposed to when they used to fight the English. For me it’s clearly the Irish civil war, which I think really serves the conflict well as it’s conflict between longtime friends, not traditional enemies.
I see what you are saying. But for me the metaphor of war and divisiveness compared to the reason this particular friendship is dwindling...isn't quite matching on an emotional level, other than in the broadest of senses. As an emotional function, I think the parallels could've been stronger in terms of why we fight, especially with our main character, who doesn't even have a desire to create division. But it isn't some big hindrance for me. Just a little observation of something I wish had been handled with more care.
@@deepfocuslens one definitely feels like a better movie could have been made from this.
The two of them are absolute cinematic magic together, probably in any imaginable context.
@post-apocposadistspacedolp5764 wooow that's deep
@Post-Apoc Space Dolphin Posadist from Uranus wut elaborate on the orange part please
I really loved this film. I loved In Bruges and Three Billboards. This one left me feeling the most hungover though. The film made me incredibly sad, but it still filled me with joy as I have had a hard time finding movies that I really connect with in the last few years.
I finally saw this after seeing your review a while ago, and I'm happy I did. Your review is spot on in so many ways, and I say this as someone with a personal connection: my great-uncle was killed in Ireland aged eighteen only a couple of years before when the movie is set, and I've always felt the contradictions of that time period, a century ago. Reflecting on the film afterward, I recalled a quote by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, which almost summarizes The Banshees of Inisherin: "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
It was a beautifully sad, depressing gorgeous film. Stays with you for a long time afterwards.
This film had very good performances and beautiful cinematography but I didn't really care about the main characters or the story. Barry Keoghan was the real stand out for me. The film opens with Colm not talking to Padraic and without some backstory I can't say I ever really cared or felt any sympathy for either of them. I understand the characters are supposed to mirror what was happening in the concurrent war but I never learned much about that either. Also- all the cut off fingers became nauseating but it's the type of stuff Mcdonagh seems to relish.
I've decided I just don't like McDonagh's films. I thought Three Billboards was the most over rated film of the past decade right behind "Get Out." I could not imagine sitting through this film more than once.
Beautiful review but I can't believe you didn't mention wee Jenny....🐎💔 So now my heart yearns for a miniature donkey.
Its not that bleak here in Ireland but I am struggling to think of any movie set here that isn't bleak in some way. But the fact you like our accent made my night so cheers!😃
Ray Donaghy: check" Man of Aran"
movie from. +/- 1920s
Waking Ned Devine.
Well it was the Irish Civil War so when you understand the contacts I think it does have a reflection on the characters
The 4 fingers he cuts off are symbolic of the 4 provinces of Ireland the war was fought over. The old woman wasn't just a propheciser of doom, she was representative of the spirit of Britain watching and encouraging Ireland to turn on each other. The killing of the donkey was the killing of irelands innocence. And the final moment on the beach where Colin farrel responds to gleessons apology with "I don't fucking care" was a punch line set up throughout the film by the constant use of the word "feckin" as a more polite way of saying fucking. The fact he said fucking at the end showed that he truly no longer gave a fuck and was ready for all out war. Symbolic of how Ireland had been made to feel by the British and then by each other. No more being nice, no more friends, nothing. Just ready for whatever.
Collin Farrell's performance in IN BRUGES put me in mind, very much, of the character of Dougal in FATHER TED. At times, I found their mannerisms indistinguishable. My sister thought the same. I only mention it in passing.
Small, far away
As someone who lost their best friend in a similar way (minus the fingers) this movie broke me.
Yes, most guys have been dumped that way by their girlfriend.
The magical atmosphere, existential meditation, and layered characterization really reminded me of one of my favorite films, The Assassination of Jesse James.. (the sublime music and photography also helped!!)
Can't wait to hear your thoughts on 'Tar.'
I just saw this film today, and I loved it for the most part. It definitely felt even more effective as I left, thinking about all of the friendships of mine that ended because certain things were happening in the world and we just grew apart. I was certainly laughing, but felt the characters longing for more as it went along. My favorite character was certainly Siobhan, the sister. She's an excellent center voice within the story. She had such a strong presence, and she was the one I was genuinely happy for in the end.
How can you love such a bad movie???
Your text is EXCELLENT. Really well thought observations about this strange and beautiful film. (A technical question: maybe you´re using some kind of compression in the sound, but almost every time there is a cut, the volume of your voice seems to go down).
It's a massive break-up movie between...
Pádraic & Colm...
Pádraic & Siobhán...
Pádraic & his Donkey...
Colm & his fingers...
Colm & his violin...
Dominic & his 'dream'
Irish Free State V ira...
Free State V Britian
Republic V The North
The physical gap between island and mainland, work as a visual representation for the distances growing between characters.
Yeah I like McDonuts too, but they took them off the menu. I think they’re a seasonal thing
Seems to me this misses the mythic symbolism throughout, the banshee lady herself and screeching background music foretelling of deaths to come, contrasting with the catholic statues, of course and very centrally the civil war which today generates a thousand myths and truths, the conflicts of all those that resonate today, on Inish (island) Erin (guess what). It is entirely a fable, and of course over the top now and then, enough not real. Above all, love and cohesiveness cast against a painful tearing apart. I suspect that if you see this film with these icons of myth in mind, the whole thing will take on a different meaning.
I agree... I feel like this reviewer missed the mark on this particular film.
Good analysis. I watched this twice because of how fun it was. Love dark humor. But yes it definitely lacks a certain something. Watched an analysis before this that also points out the local spiritual aspects to this film in the old lady and the banshees and fairy mounds. There is also the Hollywood aspect to this, predictive programming, civil war, 100 years before the times we're living in now AAAAAND Pluto's about to enter Aquarius, so 2023 should be interesting.
Definitely moved me on an emotional level that I didn’t see coming. Hilarious till the end, and you made a great point with the accents. They bring an extra layer to the delivered lines, forcing the viewer to decipher what they’re actually saying, and just that little extra work makes for a more rewarding experience. This might just be my film of the year. Colin has never been better in my opinion.
PS I would love to hear your thoughts on Triangle of Sadness.
A very fair review. It’s nominated for 9? Oscar’s, I think it might take best pic and best original screenplay. Delighted that three of the supporting cast are up for Osc.
Would be interesting to know which Oscars it’d win if EEAAO wasn’t a 2022 movie. Prob Best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best picture. Enjoyed it much more than EEAAO, in some weird way that movie felt generic?? The only definite robbery was Kerry Condon.
@deepfocuslens I dunno, I take Colm and Padriac's relationship to be intended as a microcosm maybe even an allegory of the protestant/catholic conflict in Ireland:
Colm and Padriac are on this little island in such a small space that they must get along: Like Ireland itself. Yet, Colm whimsically decides to never speak to Padriac again - partially for reasons of delusions of grandeur - even though they pass by each other every single day. In any case, Colm tries to setup boundaries but that proves untenable for Padriac, and in response to Padriac's disrespecting of boundaries, Colm absurdly resorts to violence. All the scenes that take place in the church are further intended to tie Colm and Padriac's feud to the religion they have in common - like the protestant and catholic feud in Ireland - but the religion gives neither men any solace and, indeed, the priest interferes in the feud himself.
Add in all the wall imagery, the crooked police officer's dealings, the rubble buildings, and Padriac's terrorist attack on Colm's home and the subtext is clear and ubiquitous. Of course, the young man dies.
I think a movie like this is better served keeping the meaning on a subtext level, because it would be absolutely bogged down and horrible to make the meaning any more explicit. The movie may have too many crosses, but otherwise I find it clever and not on the nose. Maybe I'm a cretan :D.
Given the religious elements of In Bruge, The Banshees of Inisherin is clearly making other points about religion besides connecting it to the war. I'm not really sure what those other points are. Certainly TBOI seems to depict a very ugly and maybe empty material reality. I dunno.
It's a metaphor for the war. The Civil War. Catholics vs Protestants. Best friends fighting one another and cutting off their noses (or in this case fingers) to spite their faces. Brendan Gleeson being the red haired catholic and Colin Farell being the black Irish from the Spanish inquisition. His own sister references it in the movie. The whole film is about exposing how absurd it is to spite your own brothers and yourself over growing apart. People change. That's okay. But at the end of the day the grim reaper is waiting for us all. Better to stay "nice" than to throw it all away over useless ideologies and petty squabbles. Because inevitably Death is waiting for us all. Quietly sitting there with a stick with a hook.
It's an entertainingly odd and dark surreal black comedy drama from Ireland set in a messed up village with only the normal people Colm Farrell's character, sister, the bartender's and the young man. The only negatives was that Farrell's character should have left the Island with his sister and it could have been explained why he didn't like him, I guess he was depressed, we have great history
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Let’s keep her separate lol, no need
@@ryandozier8053 yeah she’s too good for Sardonicast
As a fan of those guys, the sardonicast dynamic never worked
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I like YMS, and I kinda enjoy some of IHE (I don't like Ralph tho lmao)
but their podcast together doesn't work
You can't make a podcast where all the members are introverts with low social skills, Their conversations are so slow and awkward and it feels like it's going nowhere
@@Icedsobaka Well I think the benefit to her being a guest on the show is that, like it or not, Sardonicast features youtubers with bigger platforms and the exposure would help her to reach other audiences that may not be aware of her.
We're seeing this film on Saturday night, at the Avon Cinema, in Providence, RI. Can't wait!
Enjoy! From Barrington, RI.
For sure, Oscar for Best Picture deserved.
I sided with the fiddler. He wanted solitude. I felt like him because i make friends and then i soon become tired of them or they begin to annoy me. I dont want to be rude or mean to them. I guess thats why i enjoy my weekends fishing all alone. Away from people and the world. I wanted to live on that island so bad. As im growing older the more i want to be alone. Not bothered. The other man annoyed the hell out of me because he constantly wanted friendship and couldnt handle loneliness. Even his pet donkey didnt keep him occupied. I didnt like the end because i felt the fiddler lost. I wanted him to actually kill the other man with donkey. He annoyed me.
Yeah I'm coming from a completely different place in that I felt In Bruges was stunning - that Raglan Road montage was pure emotion and cinema to me. I'm gonna be very surprised if McDonagh is able to match that here.
Umm in Ireland we don't naturally drink all the time and were not naturally sad and lonely that's just a stereotypical fallacy people have of us, sad really.
In terms of the mysterious war, I think it's meant to at least allude to the Irish Civil War - a perfect metaphor for the story, really. Whatever its shortcomings, "Banshees" was so far ahead of all other English-speaking films in 2022 that the distance is not worth measuring. I grant that I've not seen every tiny indie production. But these days, in my humble opinion, a film has to NOT speak English to be good. Simplistic, but accurate for me, at least. America in particular is hopeless right now. In an era when "Uncut Gems" is considered a great movie, well, the past several years have been unpleasant, let's just leave it at that.
The Banshees of Inisherin is not only the best film of the year but might also be treasured as one of the decade's finest. This is cinema at its peak. It might be my no. 2/3 right next to Aftersun and somewhere near Cha Cha Real Smooth. So I basically disagree with your issues here. Surprisingly it's achingly close to Brendon Gleeson's Cavalry, which went completely under the radar.
I thought the war backdrop was brilliant: how something so massively historic can be going on but all that really matters to the protagonist, and so to us, is this tiny skirmish about these two people, I thought was such a powerful and clever touch. I did not give two tosses about what happened in that war, but I desperately cared about the relationship between those two guys.
The blend of comedy/absudity/bleakness is amazing. You don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Cheers for that. My old Irish family is supposed to have a Banshee attached to us
Of course they do....
@@Hiram1000 😂
Cool, cool, cool, literally just in the door from watching the film. I'm from Cork so that's my accent, it's actors from Dublin, but they are doing a Cork accent. I read the film as an expression of depression, a personification (filmification?) of depression. Nice to see Kerry Condon getting some plaudits because she has been quietly working away for years, but getting little recognition. This was my favourite Barry Keohan performance. Some surnames, that one included, are pronounced differently in different parts of Ireland, so don't worry about it. Forenames too, in fact Brendan Gleeson's character's name is the same as mine but they pronounce it differently.
I found your review especially interesting this time because of the cultural specifics. Like, for example I felt the war was a too on the nose metaphor because it was two formerly unified groups now at odds with each other. So, I was delighted with your memento mori take and reading of the film. It redeemed what I thought was weak writing. The old woman is literally a banshee. I feel like she's modeled after Peig Sayers, who is an Irish literary figure.
I enjoyed the film but I don't think I'll watch it again. The protagonist is so boring that his friend doesn't want to spend time with him and then we have to spend two hours with him? His defining characteristic is that he is boring. Love these videos, doing a great job. Thanks. If you haven't already, could you do Memories of Murder please? I'd love to hear your take.
They are NOT doing a cork accent. If any, it’s a Galway accent
@@franciscleary3069 it’s a Cork accent, I know because I live here. They’re even using colloquialisms like “like” often. The suggestion that this is a Galway accent is ludicrous. Please don’t comment on any more of my conversations
@@colmobrien9558 i won’t. not a fecking cork accent though…
@@franciscleary3069 Yeah because Galway is famous for punctuating all their sentences with "like". I strongly suspect you're not even Irish.
Keohan definitely has a Cork accent...the others definitely do not ...he seemed to be geographically out of place compared to almost everyone else. It irritated me as it brought me from being immersed in 1920s Galway/Mayo to being jolted back to the reality that they are acting... his accent was so out of place. One other actor also caused the same problem - the priest had a northern accent whereas in reality any priest in that location would have had to have been from the Archdiocese of Tuam.
This may be a ridiculous comparison, but this film felt like a darker and philosophical version of Seinfeld, set in Ireland. There were a lot of unintentional references from the show
A bit of a disappointment. The movie never truly takes off, a lot of samey scenes with samey dialogue, the plot seemed stuck and inconsistent with any development - Siobhain leaving, Colm cutting his fingers off, Domincs suicide, a lot of big events without any real background or true understanding to the reasoning. We never get to the meat of any issue within the characters lives. The story between Colm and Padraic is too odd, somewhat unrelatable and without any true message - is the story to highlight that being nice is not enough? Hypocrisy? Regret in not pursuing ones artistic potential? Resignation to fate and the dejection that can come with it? We are left with a disjointed outcome to try piece something together where not much existed to begin with.
It was called The Banshee of Inisherin but the old lady, who was suggestively offered to us as the banshee, played an insignificant part in the movie. Her role was secondary in all of it yet he title suggested otherwise.
These types of stories are quite common in Irish playwrite and literature - the small town, small mindedness, nosiness, everyone stabbing others in the back and the accompanying tragic story. I dont think this movie progressed this type of genre any further than what was. It had potential. The idea that Padraic might not have been a simpleton and had a much more complex nature, that Colm might have had a deeper story behind his madness, allegorical to Van Goghs and cutting a body part off in context to art, or, most importantly, that the old lady had a much more pivotal role in the movie, as a type of banshee.
I feel we were mislead unintentionally and that the movie lost its wings before even taking full flight.
I thought Three Billboards was a mess and hugely overrated. Is this better?
so much better
@@deepfocuslens thank you I trust your opinion!
Mess? Are you one of those people who was offended by the arc of the Racist cop
@@Gavin48 It wasn't really earned, he pretty much just completely changes his whole personality on a dime. I didn't mind too much since I really like Sam Rockwell as an actor and he sells it as best as he can, but it could have been written a little better.
@@brianvaira486 But people in real life do change. Wasn't he set on fire and confronted with the guy he threw out the Window.
You perhaps missed an allusion to the Irish civil war? The thing they spoke about during the film, gunshots and explosions going off on the mainland.
I love in bruges!!!
There's a good little gem of a movie with up and coming Irish actor Moe Dunford namely "Night Ride." Also another film similar to it which is just as good is "Wheelman" with excellent Frank Grillo.
Enjoyed your insight and ideas on the film.
Colin Ferrell has had a interesting career. The Penguin, Killing of Sacred Deer, The Lobster
If you read his plays you’ll never compare him to Ritchie again lol This film was the third part in a theme trilogy of plays. The Cripple of Inishmaan was the first part.
Slainte! Another masterpiece from the land of my fathers. It was a wonderful, philosophical, hilarious-but-melancholy masterpiece. A review of Ireland-made or based movies could emerge from this, perhaps?
I haven't seen it but I think I will, wondering like "Calvary" if these films are a product of the dying and death of the Old Faith in Ireland.
"It's Ireland. So, naturally they're drinking all the time but their voices." God, you'd love Wales! 😂😂 Great review.
Good review although I’m sure you understood the civil war metaphor. The island life and the argument between the two mirrors the larger picture on the island, in that the civil war broke out between two sides of the population. Started really on an idea of the countries future but escalated into family breakdown and infighting, which by the end most people had lost a hold of why the fighting even started. Note that this war was not what many (who aren’t Irish) believe to be Catholics against Protestants. This was outside of ‘the troubles’ that started later on in Irish history. This was a war of ideology and became very brutal among previous friends.
Pretty feckin funny. Gotta love animals.
Been watching for a while. Love your reviews!
I really loved this film!
Enjoy your reviews, cheers from Ireland! Sláinte!
More quality discussion and a thorough helpful review. You liked this more than I did. You found this funnier than I did. Sure I laughed early on, and openly laughed out loud in the theatre, but it turned to black comedy in fairly short order. Talk about a film that is really about very little. A very human story however. Relatable until it goes over the top. I have always maintained that the opposite of love is NOT hate. Hate has powerful emotional ties to it. The opposite of love is indifference. Farrell's character managed to keep Gleason's character engaged with him, avoiding the pending indifference. For all the wrong reasons of course. Farrell's sister shows that education can set one free into a larger world. The Barry role and that of Farrell show how small and limiting one's world can become, especially when those around you don't want to play any more. I had expected more with the buzz from this heading into TIFF. Oh and to see Barry at his most bizarre, see him in The Killing of A Sacred Deer (also with Farrell).
Waiting for the Triangle of Sadness movie review 😊
Thanks for the review, after which I must see this film. How many boxes of tissues do I need?
Oooh, good line about niceness. I wonder which one did you think did it better, this or Everything Everywhere, on just being nice and content as a part of good life?
Why do so many RUclipsrs post their videos reversed horizontally (as a mirror-image)?
Good review!
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Just watched it. MM can really really write. The human cast is great. The animal cast is better than most other human casts. The second half is clumsy, but the first half is better than almost anything else I've ever seen on a screen.
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Probably the only truly good film made in 2022, out of the 112 films i managed to see from that dark year.
Someone: why don't you ever stand up in shot?
Deepfocuslens: i am standing
Someone: 😳
Stale? No, this movie was FECKING DULL!!!
Wonder if this will make more than Babylon at the box office
Colin stopped doing booze and drugs. This allowed him to explore characters with an emotional landscape (drugs get in the way of authenticity!)
Since the story was set in 1923 the Irish Civil War is being fought on the mainland and there's the suggestion that this contributed to Colm's existential crisis, where he feels the need to leave "a legacy " behind, something by which he'll be remembered with death a little closer when he hears the occasional cannon fire. It's not a burden but a fact, and families were torn apart because of it. There's the question of the story being an allegory of what's happening in Ireland at that time but in the end it doesn't matter. It's ALL about the characters who are quintessentially Irish of the time
Kicking those habits definitely helped his career, I also think he was being pushed at a time in his career to be a action star which just didn't seem to suit him, glad he found his path career wise he's a great actor and well suited to these films.
The best film ive seen in years and I may even love it more than in bruges.
Just watched it. Gut punch in some ways. Some.
I could see similarities with this and Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
he was starting to do that even in Phone Booth
The archetype forms could definitely be executed better, as you mentioned with the oracle. Kathryn Hunter really set a precedent earlier this year for such a role in The Tragedy of Macbeth. And the theme of conflict, in a sense being a necessary part of our lives, was expressed so bleakly yet comically well.
But I don't really agree with your point regarding the war serving as a thematic reference to universal violence and conflict in our lives. I'm not really well-read on Ireland's History, but the film goes to extreme lengths in patterning itself as an allegory of the Irish Civil War and Irish experience. This ranges especially between setting and place as Inisherin doesn't actually exist but is a fictional island that serves as a metaphor for Ireland, which is, considered "an island of the Atlantic Ocean" and " part of the British Isles," I felt this allowed the film to funnel all pertinent aspects of Irish experience into a single and supposed remote location, a parody. Which creates the idea that characters are detached from the strives of the Civil War happening on the supposed "mainland". When in reality, it may be a common misconception the film tries to point out, that most Irish people downplay the influence these events have had and still have on their lives. It is mentioned that the events take place around 1923, a few years after the peak of the Industrial Revolution, yet everything about the lifestyles of the characters and place indicates a much older and less technologically reliant community. This also in a way conveys how the colonialist ties between Britain and Ireland were not beneficial in any way they may have argued.
This is a bit long, but another reason I felt the Island and its characters serves as an allegory for Irish/Gaelic experiences is because of the events of Kerry Condon's character. Her story really seems similar to the Irish play Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel(I'd highly recommend), but without giving too much of the play, it deals heavily with the idea of escapism in terms of Irish people searching for better pastures but struggling to deal with their ties to their homeland. Which Kerry Condon's character is battling with. Tbh though countless aspects of the story can be gauged in this way to relate to an allegory of Irish experiences. Such as between two friends, two sides, Northern Ireland-Republic of Ireland, Unionists-Nationalists, British-Irish, Protestants-Catholics. But I just felt that it wasn't a subsidiary aspect of the film but a core part. The last shot of clouds and land really established it for me after viewing. Like you mentioned thou ya there's a lot to take from the film and it grows gradually more and more after
I think this is also why you noted on the relations to Tarantino and the Coen brothers, given how the film can be interpreted as a metanarrative for Irish culture and history. A narrative technique all three directors have employed and been inspired off from.
I view the movie as an outright allegory after seeing it.
As far as I know Barry Keoghan’s name is pronounced like key-again. That’s how he says it at least
Key o ghan
Most of Ireland isn't like Inisherin, not bleak at all !
As an Irish guy, happy to say your pronunciation of "Keoghan" is better than 99% of ones I've heard from Americans lol, fair play. Great review, am glad you liked the film!
American speaking👋I've looked at multiple sources and it seems the definitive pronunciation is Kee-awn. Is that correct? If not, by all means, break it down for me.
@@user-ln4gd6hx7e ha no "Kee-awn" definitely isn't right. You can pronounce it as either "Kyo-gan" or "Kyo-an" and you'll be grand 😁
I would like to hear your opinion on Carpenter's "Halloween"!
I liked the movie too, but I disagree on your assessment of the director's past work.
Why is she comparing this film to in brudges
Same writer/director, same two leads. Similar mix of humour and darkness.
I watched it love it but the ending is a bit strange
Spoiler.The finger cutting off was ridiculous to me and let's the movie down. If I'd wrote it he'd have self harmed by maybe stubbing out a cigarette on the back of his own hand which while being shocking would have been less extreme and more believeable.
But then how else could you keep audiences enticed without using modern CGI ultra violence? Because that's the point of the finger cutting, you know? Trickery.
@@MrAsh1989 You mean they didn't actually cut his fingers off ?
cant wait for you to see Tar if you havent yet that shii blew me away
The director did what I call "European" style Tarintino movies and they kinda worked.
No, this is not right. Please do not see this movie through the prism of a copy of Tarantino ffs! Bergman is a better jumping off point if you really want to base it on influences, though that is still shallow
I think you need to fix your thumbnails and put the actual movie if you wanted to capture peoples attention
This movie is being way
over-praised. The premise (seen Mcdonagh more or less confirm this in an interview) seems to assume there's something 'absurd' about the Gleeson character - 'I don't want to be your friend anymore' is a perfectly acceptable thing to say to another human being if feel you aren't compatible with them. It just grabs for a theme and a mood (which I'd describe as kind of third-rate Beckett, pretty uninspired direction for an Irish playwright to take) and sort of wallows in it for the runtime, it doesn't say anything really imo.
The backdrop of the Irish civil war is invoked for nothing more than enabling the characters to utter bleak truisms like ‘ah sure they’ll be fightin’ about sumthin’ else tomorrow’, said whilst solemnly staring out to sea so it’s very deep of course, not trite at all. Nothing is done with it, the setting of the island is hermetically sealed and works best that way, the civil war is just there to add some unnecessary historical context to a rather thin script (and McDonagh is a playwright so much more than he is a film-maker, all his films are conceived as stage dramas and show no particular awareness of cinema as a medium). Lit. The only thing he does that couldn’t be done in a play is the obnoxiously overused landscape and aerial shots. Pales in comparison to the obnoxious overuse of that 2creepy4me old lady who casually augurs death. For all the emphasis on script and snappy humorous dialogue, the strongest sequence to me was the wordless one wherein the Gleeson character, despite never wanting to talk to the Farrell character again, demonstrates he still cares for him by picking him up off the ground after being beaten by the cop - there's something truthful and mysterious in that, that 'love' is no less real for being utterly distant
I don't want to be your friend anymore is what primary school kids say to each other. Adults don't typically come out and say that, this is where the comedy comes from, and the tragedy is that many people realise that some of their old friends have cut ties with them without ever coming out and saying 'i don't like you anymore' and they never get a chance to fight for that friendship in the primary school way
The entire film boils down to Colm picking up Padraic after being knocked down by the cop? Did Citizen Kane come down to some old man dropping a snow globe? Most found Banshees to be engrossing even with the obvious metaphors and arthouse trappings. You went into this film actively looking for things to pick apart, what a sad way to watch a movie.
@@Fred.pSonic your reading comprehension is not good. I said I found that sequence the best or the most effective, worth pointing out b/c being dialogue-free it's an exception to the general rule of McDonagh film writing, a 'director' who is way too enamored with his own dialogue imo, and to be a good director he should pay more attention to film-making not just writing and dialogue (not that I think those elements of his work are as good as his fans will think anyway). Idc what 'most' think or do. And no, I went into this film hoping to be moved or inspired i some way, whilst fully aware this is a rare thing to experience and this film, like most of the films that get made, didn't really deliver it. As 'entertainment', it was just okay. I also went in knowing this was made by the same person who made three billboards outside wherever, which I think may have been one of the worst films I've ever seen, worst of that decade probably. But I'm sure these 'most' people whose opinion counts so much to you clapped like idiots at that too. That being said, since you seem to find film criticism as a concept to be 'sad'...I really have to wonder just what you're doing in the comments section of a video from a film criticism channel
@@helvete_ingres4717 Ugh, you're someone "who is way too enamored with his own dialogue".
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You can parse a film with a razor's edge. Still you love movies for their very existence. I enjoy your channel.
Speaking of simple pleasures, one of mine is to watch movie reactions.
To be sure
Would love to have you join a stream and colab on a video sometime!
Forget the review. I could listen to her speak all day