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Post by queenzod on Oct 11, 2022 15:00:24 GMT
I’m starting a thread about this film because I think it’s going to be blockbusters and it’s one I may actually go see in a theater! I haven’t been to a movie theater since DS1, I think. Wow. Anyway, Brendan and Colin are starting publicity for it and they were on Stephen Colbert last night, so check it out if you’re interested. Two absolutely gorgeous men - smart, heartfelt, brilliant. They’re going to be on Seth Meyer tonight. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjaAL8vs290m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ebpyvckfa8 |
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Post by roverpup on Oct 11, 2022 15:13:38 GMT
I just saw the segment on Colbert. I won't be going to the cinema to see this but I certainly will look forward to it on a streaming service. We saw In Bruges a while back and really liked it. And this one seems to have all the elements that made In Bruges so interesting - great writing, great acting and an interesting story line. I look forward to it!
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Post by queenzod on Dec 14, 2022 14:54:22 GMT
The Banshees of Inisherin is out now on HBO so I watched it last night and I cannot get it out of my head. I haven’t been this affected by a movie since Power of the Dog last year. It’s amazing. The acting, of course, is perfection. I’ve never seen Colin Farrell be better! Such a heartfelt performance of this poor wounded man who can’t understand why his friend “don’t like him no more,” and how he can’t let it go so things keep escalating. Brendan’s character was positively mad, bonkers, as were lots of the other folks on that island.
It’s a bit gory in places and very dark in others. Tremendously sad, too, with a few bright, funny spots to keep you from wanting to stab yourself in the heart. It’s been labeled a black comedy but I don’t really think that’s quite correct. It’s a drama with a lot of tension and a few funny bits. Things don’t get wrapped up in a neat bow, there’s a lot of wondering what exactly happened to several characters (which some reviewers considered a problem but we’ve seen that take before with Dog).
Long ago I had a friendship of 20 years that just fizzled away into nothing and I’ve never seen a movie that approaches all the confusion and sadness something like that engenders.
I recommend it highly.
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Post by MagdaFR on Dec 19, 2022 23:01:49 GMT
The Banshees of Inisherin is out now on HBO so I watched it last night and I cannot get it out of my head. I haven’t been this affected by a movie since Power of the Dog last year. It’s amazing. The acting, of course, is perfection. I’ve never seen Colin Farrell be better! Such a heartfelt performance of this poor wounded man who can’t understand why his friend “don’t like him no more,” and how he can’t let it go so things keep escalating. Brendan’s character was positively mad, bonkers, as were lots of the other folks on that island. It’s a bit gory in places and very dark in others. Tremendously sad, too, with a few bright, funny spots to keep you from wanting to stab yourself in the heart. It’s been labeled a black comedy but I don’t really think that’s quite correct. It’s a drama with a lot of tension and a few funny bits. Things don’t get wrapped up in a neat bow, there’s a lot of wondering what exactly happened to several characters (which some reviewers considered a problem but we’ve seen that take before with Dog). Long ago I had a friendship of 20 years that just fizzled away into nothing and I’ve never seen a movie that approaches all the confusion and sadness something like that engenders. I recommend it highly. OMG, poor Pádraic! Colin Farrel is awesome! All the cast is terrific. Barry Keoghan has finally a character that you're not expecting to be a psychopath and that scene with Siobhán was so heartbreaking. All his scenes were, such a terrible life.
I think it is, drama or comedy, or what you want it to be. Some people say it is horror too.
I'm thinking that it is a fable about the partition of Ireland and the war that came afterwards, considering that it was more or less a 100 years ago, as some reviews say.
In that case the dull Pádraic must be the one representing the pro-UK or anti-republicans, those who accepted the partition (?),. Colm is pro-IRA (?). He doesn't want to continue his life as before. Or do they represent the two Irelands? The abusive policeman is obviously exactly that, a mercenary who abuses people and has no problem killing anyone if he's paid. Siobhán emigrates? What about the weird priest? They were Catholic. Where were the Protestants?
This is me, commenting on something I know nothing about. But I think the mentions to the war must have some greater meaning. Or not.
Anyway, the movie works very well without this interpretation.
In that case to me is a dark comedy. A tragedy to Pádraic, true, but it is so absurd that it is funny. Pádraic not accepting that Colm doesn't want to have anything else to do with him, Colm cutting his fingers and condemning himself to never play the violin again, throwing the fingers as stones towards the house, Jenny choking with a finger, everyone losing something at the end and Pádraic not accepting being nice anymore. The only part that is totally a tragedy is poor, poor Dominic. He was so wounded, but naive and hopeful, trying to see some solution and goodness even when he had no chances at all.
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Post by queenzod on Jan 11, 2023 4:13:41 GMT
Colin Farrell just won Best Actor at the GG! I do love me a handsome, clever Irishman.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 7, 2023 2:30:22 GMT
I just watched it and I really liked it. I think it’s more humble with its ambitions than something like TPOTD. I sincerely can’t see the comparisons. Maybe with the exception of the theme of toxic masculinity. Those men are completely bonkers! Only the female character is capable of finding redemption and escape from that asphyxiating place. Well, the sister! The other female, the old woman was clearly one of the banshees in the title so she wasn’t exactly human. Right? IMO it’s clearly a dark comedy. It’s hysterically funny but the jokes are about the almost suicidal desperation of the characters, in the case of the kid, literal suicide I think the “metaphor” about the partition/ civil war is very clear considering that Farrell even explicitly compares their situation to the war on the other side. TBH I thought that line wasn’t needed. I hate when movies directly explain things! Lol Anyway, it is a great metaphor for any longstanding conflict between neighbors (or why not? People on Internet reclaiming historical wrongdoings!) . It’s just plainly ridiculous and pathetic but hey! the severed finger you used as a revenge towards me killed my dwarf donkey so we can’t stop this war! Never! Again hysterically funny! In a dark way, of course!
Agreed that the performances are all around wonderful but yeah, it’s Colin Farrell show. He is just great as this pathetic simplistic man with his hurt pride trying to be a good man but always taking the worst possible decisions. |
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Post by queenzod on Apr 7, 2023 2:41:30 GMT
Lots of people didn’t “get” the comparison to the Irish Civil War at all and thought the whole movie simply depressing and bonkers. I showed it to my friend Cindy who usually hates those kinds of films but she liked it very much and was in tears at the end. I think it hits harder if you’ve ever had a good friendship just fizzle out for whatever reason and are left with lifelong questions of inadequacy, guilt, anger, and confusion. It’s not a topic often addressed in film and I think the creators did a wonderful job exploring that question.
The scene with Barry and Kerry by the side of the lake is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever watched. Yes, he was an annoyance and an eejit but nobody deserves that depth of suffering. Poor kid.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 7, 2023 3:06:13 GMT
Slightly OT but I remembered this because the metaphor about the Irish civil war in the film, I’m actually watching a lot of Ingmar Bergman lately because I bought the wonderful Criterion’s box set celebrating his 100th anniversary. It’s a thing of beauty! Probably the best box set ever! Seriously, here is someone’s unboxing if you don’t believe me!
Anyway, I watched Shame a pair of days ago and it’s about a fictional civil war in the 1960’s Sweden and even when the mood it’s extremely different, the attitude of the characters in Banshees about the war reminds me to this one. They just don’t/can’t care anymore or even understand who is who in the conflict and what side they are or should support. Both sides seems equally wrong and cruel in Bergman’s movie. The extras on the BluRay are also fascinating because they explain the context: it was made around the time of the Vietnam war and he was influenced by it (he said he saw the reaction of a Vietnamese old couple to a bombing on TV and was so shocked by it so he based his Sweden characters on them) but he wasn’t exactly a political filmmaker so he also didn’t understood nor wanted to understand the factions. He is a humanitarian filmmaker so his interest was on the normal people trapped in the crossfire and on their disintegrating mental state and morals. He was denouncing the war for what it makes to human beings but couldn’t care less about its politics. At that very political time, it should had been something surprising for an artist not being very clear about a political message.
Banshees isn’t so directly centered on the war in the sense that we don’t see the carnage nor the suffering of those trapped in the conflict. We just hear the far away noises but we indeed see the “carnage” and the suffering from the ridiculous war between these two very ridiculous men! So I guess that like Bergman, it maybe doesn’t matter who represents which side, maybe just maybe but are equally wrong!
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Post by queenzod on Apr 7, 2023 4:29:56 GMT
Well said, sgev! 👍🏼
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Post by MagdaFR on Feb 26, 2024 4:40:52 GMT
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