Based on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/
Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.
Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.
I may be missing a detail or two, and would happily be corrected, but for the curious:
- Green = Catholics / IRA supporters
- Yellow/Orange = Protestants
- Red = English
- Blues = Anglo-Irish Treaty supporters (?)
edit: formatting
I'm asking because I picked up a hitchhiker way back when that was an ordinary thing to do, and he was a vocational school grad, but told me this whole thing about how the Wizard of Oz was a parable about the gold standard (follow the yellow bricks to the Emerald City) vs greenback dollar, with the cowardly lion (Dept of Defence) and the Tin Man (midwest industrial might) and Scarecrow (agriculture), pitting the witches of the North and South and East and West... you get the picture. It's a very tight theory, and I was shocked I hadn't learned this in my college track/college career.
and I believed it for the next decades till I found out: it wasn't true.
So I ask you again, is this something you know you know? I only have time left to believe one new thing and I need to be sure of it
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_T...
I can't really speak to this, which is why I have a (?) around the meaning of Blue. I can say that green, orange, and red have pretty obvious connections, especially given the context of the film taking place during the Irish Civil War, which directly followed the Irish War of Independence (from England, who wore red in battle).
If it helps assuage your fear, you can take a look at the meaning of the colors of the Irish flag to see context for green and orange.
Not the sectarian "troubles" and IRA, circa the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
This is one of my favorite scenes in recent memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIsqYO9l8w
What acting.
But I suspect a lot of that is a subjective taste, so it's not surprising it's not widely appreciated.
I find Irish people perfectly charming, but when it comes to the themes of Irish film and literature, charming does not oft spring to my lips. Did you watch this film to the end? warmed the cockles of your heart did it?
i didn't imply anything, I literally asked, and more importantly, in a rhetorical sense as a lead-in to what I said after.
my comments in my opinion, like the film in your opinion, are not for everyone, only for people of superior taste.
I'm not taking your bate soz.
Both are wonderful Black comedies, imo. I agree that the story and characters are different (but that's to be expected given they are different movies after all) but the mood is similar between the two. I'll concede that Banshees is darker than Bruges, though.
I found it absolutely not funny, very strange, and didn't like any of it one bit. Shame, because I really like most of what both leads do.
I'd rather cut off a finger than watch it again. And making that joke was the only time I've laughed about that awful movie.
"What is art?" I started to enjoy film more when I understood that the best directors are just telling a story and not don't care if you like it or not. Of course you are free to hate it.
The same applies to any form of art.
If you want a movies easy to enjoy, there's the superhero blockbuster movies and Star Wars, I guess.
What makes a director/story writer so exalted as to have better stories?
The best movies, IMO, are those that can tell a story while drawing the audience in. Whether through comedy, sadness, shock, etc.
This movie was just a person telling a very weird story. Taken at pure face value, and ignoring the actors' talent, it sounds more like a story a random drunk person on a bus would tell.
I understand art is completely subjective, so I'm in no place to say you're wrong. But it's kinda dismissive to tell someone who hated it to watch superhero movies. Now -those- really shouldn't be made.
The story was perfect for a short film and not a feature film. I bet if you edit the movie down to 20-25 minutes it will make a fantastic piece of art.
Agree to disagree. I found it funny. Just try describing it to someone, and the premise is actually hilarious. But yes, dark, and heartbreaking in certain scenes. Great film.
Gleeson and Farrell are good actors, but for me the script let them down. It felt like it was trying too hard to be meaningful or symbolic but nothing landed.
Barry Keoghan was the best thing about it, amazing performance.
The melancholy, loneliness, and utterly pointless violence far outweighed the occasional laugh.
You can call it whatever you want, but I'm certainly not going to recommend it to friends as a black comedy. That's a surefire way to set them up for disappointment.
I’ll be hit randomly in my day with recollections from the film and chuckle or even burst out laughing. More so than In Bruges or 3Billboards.
“That’s the same way my mammy died.” And “I’m here for the opposite of that. What’s the opposite of licks? I don’t know.” And “It takes two to tango. I don’t want to dance. You were dancing with your dog.”
He has that hangdog, depressed and confused thing going on that's so charming.
Surprised it got that much hype