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Originally Posted by _tunic_
very strange movie, I'm not sure if I liked it. It's just too weird. I did love the soundtrack or to be more specific the editing of background noise.
Might be considering to buy it on DVD/bluray for any special features.
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great movie. i love it. it's about alcoholism really. fucking tragic. and nicolas roeg is such a good director: performance. walkabout. don't look now. this one of course. insignificance. i really want to watch bad timing, it's long overdue for me, maybe i'll watch it this weekend.
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last night i saw:
the banshees of inisherin
it was fucking great! very fucking funny! sad too obviously, but overall mostly funny in spite of all.
i 100% do not get rob and severian's lack of tolerance for it. did we watch the same movie?
& thanks to diesel for the comment/clarification.
anyway, it was all very "father ted" for me hahahahaaaaaa. some very recognizable "types". also brought back memories of james joyce and other irish literature.
so yeah, great writing, great acting, unusual developments, beautiful everything, will watch again.
***ETA: SPOILERINOS TO FOLLOW***
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
My wife was horrified.
I think the whole point was that Colin Ferrell's character is so FUCKING STUPID that he doesn't understand the man he thinks of as a best friend LOATHES him.
what a waste of time and money.
These are the kinds of stories that make me read very few fiction novels.
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colm doesn't exactly loathe padraic. this is clearly shown twice with the cop scenes when he looks after him/defends him from the cop.
this is what makes it confusing for padraic (who is, indeed, "dull"). colm just wants silence! so he could (attempt to) be great, lmao. colm really is staring at his own mortality and dealing with "the despair". bleak shit, funny treatment.
the little donkey was tragic but not on purpose. padraic perhaps proves to be the worse asshole by the end. not as "nice" as he claimed. even the extra-dull dominic knew this.
anyway, i liked it a lot.
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Originally Posted by Severian
Yeah, but, like, ideally there would be some shred of redemption — somewhere.
This movie is bleaker than fuck. It’s like misery porn masquerading as black comedy. It’s well made but fuck it I am too old to pay to be bummed the fuck out.
It’s also a metaphor for the Irish civil war, so that’s in the background. But holy hell I’ve seen literal WAR movies that are vastly more enjoyable and vastly more upsetting that still manage to be worth the time and energy.
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redemption... for whom? from what? who here needs "redemption"?
the sister gets away from all that but it's not a redemption thing. she just fled. she likes to read and knows that mozart was actually from the 18th century, lol. so she's escaping dumbfuckery and the confinement of a very primitive social system and goes to be a librarian. colm who is apparently cultured (although maybe not as much as he thinks) and being studied by musicians or at least collaborating with them (there was a big irish culture revival thing in the 1920s and before, see for example yeats) wants to escape dumbfuckery too but by staying in place. dominic who is perhaps the stupidest of all escapes via death.
but yeah, this is old western ireland. it's not regular modern ireland with the euro and corporate headquarters in dublin hahaha. it's a tough place.
anyway i found it more comical than anything. almost like dougal and father hackett fighting hahahahaaaaaah. (father ted also happens in western ireland)
i'm not claiming to be an irish expert, but these characters and tropes have not been simply conjured out of thin air. they have a long history and they're used here to great comical/satirical effect.