>2 hours of being beaten over the head with the Irish civil war allegory
>1 likable character
>random witch who can tell the future
>0 tonal consistency at any point in the humor
>humor that does not land at any point in the film
>the death the witch predicts is a side character randomly committing suicide
Woah... it's kino...
I find you dull
You've never had any friends, so of course you don't get it lmao
Good brother got all the talent.
>Irish civil war allegory
show me 5 (five) examples of this
Farrel is England and Gleeson is Ireland.
So who is the donkey supposed to be? Wales?
Ulster.
irish civil war was between the irish, pro-treaty government vs anti-treaty IRA.
I've not watched it, but from the clips I thought it was an allegory for globalist wiener suckers vs provincial bumpkins tearing apart a formally happy nation?
Repeatedly showing the gunfire in the background.
Siobhan exasperatedly yelling at Colm about it being a dull island where everyone is mad at each other for no good reason.
The only reason Colm cuts his fingers off is to keep the epic allegory going. DUDE! WAR! LMAO! The Irish kill each other and destroy their culture with war just to spite the other guys DUDE!!!! Colm cutting off his fingers makes no sense in context if you want to take the movie seriously, he's a completely normal person until he starts cutting off his fingers.
The movie ends with them on the beach talking about how the gunfire stopped, after Colm's house is burned, and Padraic says something along the lines of "they'll just start back up, some things never end, I think that's a good thing"
The movie is constantly shoving the fact that it's an allegory down your throat. It's as subtle as a baseball bat.
that's not what allegory means
Absolutely filtered. The civil war was an allegory for their friendship, not the other way around.
I don't like ya no more, anon
You're not supposed to remember Oscar nominated films after the Oscar's have happened.
it's the old guy upon whose eye a droplet of tainted blood fell, so it makes sense for him to act a bit irascibly
what you described is basically a documentary of modern Irish life.
>interwar period
>there's about to be another calamitous world war on the continent mainland, too
>Colm's faith is inadequate to deal with impending mortality
>falls for pride, vanity, fear, blaspheming Jesus and the Saints with that "people remember music" guff
>seals it with a blood pact
>even the sister was probably interrupted from an heroing by diddled dunderhead
That empty chair that used to be hung up inside next to the triplex candles, then set aright by the McCormick witch at the end for the audience to be sat beside her through the 4th wall and bear witness to the final confrontation-- it's for God. It's not like they reconsecrated the Mark of Cain daily at the fork in the road before the Mary statue or anything either. Of all active writer-directors, you have here something that would be equal to the task of adapting something like Child of God from Cormac McCarthy. A great film matches poetry, and this is it with Banshees. It is not solely about the Irish Civil War, but atavistic paganism creeping up on post-Christian Europe and all the blood rights and libels and fratricidal feuding that go along with it.
Kino
The director explicitly said (uproxx interview) it was NOT an Irish Civil War allegory. He also said that the movie is essentially about 2 guys
>The director explicitly said (uproxx interview) it was NOT an Irish Civil War allegory.
And you believe that? John Ford used to tell interviewers he didn't respect he meant nothing by the choices he made with his movies.
That's different. Read the interview
I did. He's just being humble, which the interviewer literally says they suspect in the introduction.
Not at all. He's being inequivocal:
The friendship between Pádraic and Colm ending is also a metaphor for the Irish Civil War. I’m curious, does every incident in this movie between Pádraic and Colm line up with some historical event? Or is it more broad than that?
Much more broad. I don’t think it really matches up with anything. What were you thinking?
There’s a scene where Pádraic sets Colm’s house on fire, but also gives him a warning that he’s going to do that. That sounds like something specific that may have happened.
No, no, no. It was all made up. I’m going to claim credit for that one.
I see. I didn’t know if there was a historical event where an army destroyed some facility, but gave a warning first…
I see what you mean. Not really, in truth. No, it was just all makey-uppy.
The way you frame their relationship, it’s such an interesting way to look at how hurt feelings lead to bitterness and then bitterness can lead to something unintentional happening, then things truly can’t be fixed. Between friends or between countries.
Yeah. It does feel that way in war especially, that if things aren’t solved, it’s almost the war becomes about the horrible things that were then done instead of the original dispute in some ways. And I think that’s what was interesting about this story, that things unravel and get worse and worse, sometimes without, oftentimes without intending to. And then become unforgivable and irreparable. And I guess that’s true of wars as much as is true of this little story about the two guys.
How does this story come to you? A story about these two guys, but it also plays along with almost every way a war starts in real life, too. It’s really remarkable.
Honestly, I just made it about the two guys.
>inequivocal
Not a word. And he's not being not being unequivocal he's just minimising the metaphor. I'm sure he found the most compelling thing the relationship between Pad and Colm but suggesting it's all just a happy accident is not remotely convincing. He's being humble and perhaps likes people to be able to find their own meaning in his writing.
https://eng.ichacha.net/mzj/inequivocal.html
Otherwose, not an argument. His words are Unambiguous about the movie nort being about the Irish Civil War.
>https://eng.ichacha.net/mzj/inequivocal.html
lol
You can identify humility as well as you can identify subtext, ESL.
>Woah... it's kino...
Only accurate thing in your post and tbh I just don't like ya thread no more.
Banshees really reminded me of a Cohen brothers movie like Raising Arizona and Fargo
stop westing ma feckin time with ya dull and meaningless posts OP
The donkey was whiskey.
It's kino. you lost chuds
ok so who is the dull one, the IRA or the IFS?
This. There's little wonder why the movie got shut out the Oscars.
the reason is the racial composition of the cast, the lack of sexual deviancy and no hard left political themes
Or maybe the movie just sucked.
it received a massive amount of awards and made money. It's ok to just say you personalty didn't like it, you know
BLANDshees of Inishereen
was a damn good picture. should've win the Oscar albeit in a weak field. EEAAO was complete rubbish
Why is every Irish movie about how Irish they are
But you liked it yesterday?
>>2 hours of being beaten over the head with the Irish civil war allegory
I don't care about allegories, I did however care about the characters so the movie works.
You just went in having been told by someone it's about the Civil War and hyper focused on anything that resembled that.
It's kino no need for some subtext.