The Banshees Of Inisherin

i think it should be halle berry

Posting cold only just seeing off download.

I'd cut off my own finger not to watch that crap again.

Awful doesn't cut it.

Sister the only redemption.

What a joke the Golden Globes. This is an awful film.

First of all there's the pace of the thing, glacial. Obviouly a stage play with great cinematography.

Then there's the heavy accented dialogue, I nearly needed subtitles a few times & I'm Irish.

Then there's the justification of Colm's action when it came to his fingers, completely over the top. Perhaps there was a mental health issue here that could have been further explored but we just had to believe he took this action despite his profession.

The Barry Keoghan character shoe-horned in to add an abuse element with the father, seemed tagged on & went nowhere.

Lady McBeth putting on the spook for tension/drama.

My main complaint is that it never really went anywhere & when it did it just didn't matter, only character with any sort of resolution was the sister.

The story of the movie acts as an allegory for the civil war, which we see happening in the background. Men who were once friends are now seemingly enemies, and over what?

The cutting of the fingers seems to show the lengths these fighting men are willing to go to make their point - even if it means harming themselves in the process.

The death of the young lad and the donkey highlights the innocent victims caught up in the war; the sister moving away mirror those who's lives were uprooted by the war.

Gleeson's character wanting to write a piece of music that he'll be remembered by is like the war leaders wanting their actions to be remembered. But his piece wasn't memorable and it didn't seem like it would have that impact.

And what was left? The two lads parting on the beach, both sides stuck in their beliefs, to the detriment of all. And for what?

Arrives on Disney+ here next week in the 21st.

Had to share this 😀

Taught it was a film about ??????, mond boggling to think it's nominated for 8 awards lol lol,think I might chance the filming industry myself.

What a borefest of a movie about zero I'll cut my fingers off if u keep trying to talk to me,shocking film full stop............

But the daft yanks will be suckered in..................

And I bet it cost small money to make and produce, terrible sh1te show

Watched this on Thursday night and still trying to figure if a brilliant bit of writing or a pile of Drivel.

The civil war analogy mentioned earlier has given me more food for thought.

Must be a very poor year because it was like a stretched (to breaking point) chapter of Dul, with a deeply contrived storyline, and mediocre acting (bar the sister).

Partly rescued by some drone footage of the Aran Islands and Connemara, I really can't understand the love in. It's his worst film. Calvary was far far far better (as was The Wonder).

totally agree..

Watched it last night, liked it well enough, but will have to let it ruminate for a few days to see exactly where I fall on it.

Lots of thoughts that have already been stated here, but one notion I had that hasn't been mentioned is really just Colm's arc. I kind of think of him as Martin himself in this movie - or at least the common perspective of an artist - as the creator/artist who has trouble with his own need to create, and the guilt that comes from not creating. Both men effectively have everything they need in life, but can't quiet the gnawing urge/addiction driving them to keep creating.

Before the film starts, we know Colm has been to confession about his 'despair'. I think maybe the whole film is Colm's story of self-sabotage, effectively using his friend in this callous way out of desperation to force a situation where he can justify (to himself) going to these extreme lengths, that ultimately remove the pressure from him to make new music.

He's a fiddle player who says he craves the solitude to create, but decides to make his point by removing the fingers he needs to play. Which is obviously nonsensical, he could have done any number of other things that would've been far less contradictory - unless it's a roundabout way of him using this situation to remove that guilt and pressure from his shoulders. As he says once they're gone, "it's a relief in a way". It's sort of like a self-lobotomisation to bring him down to everyone else's level again, just be able to live in peace.

Siobhan is maybe the sane/healthy, or perhaps simply earlier-stage perspective, giving in to her growing desire to write/work in the arts, and taking the leap from the small town to the broader world. Padraic is the resentful everyman, damaged or left behind by these artists passions and obsessions.

The first half was hilarious, but Keoghan bothered me every time he was on screen. His accent is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard from a natural born Irishman. All over the place and irritating.