Saw
The Banshees of Inisherin last night. I enjoyed it, but it is not a happy movie and I imagine many people would find it morose and dull. It reminds me a lot of Martin McDonagh's brother John Michael's film
Calvary, not only because of the setting and that Brendan Gleeson stars in both, but the sad plot. I saw
Calvary alone and a friend of mine was a little upset I hadn't invited him along, but I know he hates depressing movies, and he asked me to spoil it a little: "The priest ends up being a pedophile or something, right?"
"No."
"But he is a bad person or something, right? Like, he did something to deserve being threatened with his life?"
"No, he's a good man."
"####, okay, I'm glad I didn't see it."
Similarly in "
Banshees", Colin Farrell's 'Pádraic' does nothing to deserve the scorn of his former best friend 'Colm' (Gleeson). I'm sure my friend would hate this movie, but I felt a funny irony that me specifically going to see it without him kind of makes me 'Colm' to his 'Pádraic'...