Can someone explain this movie to me please? I think I'm legitimately too retarded to understand the symbolism and meaning behind it.
What happens when you leave lonely men to their own devices.
>>220997903They cut their fingers off?
>>220997785There are a few different threads going on. It’s an allegory for the Irish civil war. There are themes of proactive vs unhealthy ways to deal with a bad situation. You can also view it as an existential crisis for Colm. He’s terrified of how little he has accomplished and chooses to blame Padraic instead of accepting the fact that most people just live ordinary lives. At first, he seems to be trying to change his fate and take positive steps, but once he mutilates himself, it becomes clear that he doesn’t want a solution as much as he wants an excuse. And to me the most interesting part is Dominic, who we’re constantly told is slow, but doesn’t really seem unintelligent, just a bit odd and damaged from a history of sexual abuse. His story is by far the saddest aspect of the film, but it’s played for laughs. The viewer instead feels terribly sad about a lost friendship and a dead farm animal, while a lonely, victimized young man quietly takes his own life.
>>220997785Colm represents "high" artPadraig represents wanting to make popular art to make people like you.
I think what kind of got me was just the difference in mentality where Padraic is just content living a simple life even if they're isolated from the mainland and live in a very primitive way. Colm always wished he would be more and his age caught up to him and now he blames the people around him for not achieving greatness and takes it out on Padric and everyone else. Siobhan is the one that moves away from that little village to seek a better future while Padric lies to her pretending everything is fine because he doesn't want her to come back because there's no future there.
>>220997785Why do you need symbolism?
>>220998184I don't. I let the critical drinker and right-wing pundits do all my thinking for me.
>>220998184Cause I don't understand what the point of the old lady was or why you would start cutting your fingers off just because you don't like someone no more
>>220998154Siobhan is just another way people fail to deal with life, run away and try and start somewhere else, as if the problem lied in the external rather than the internal.
>>220998067Padraig was objectively the good guy of this movie though. So you're saying normies have had it right all along?
>>220998381The old lady was a banshee, foretelling people's deaths
>>220997785Irish civil warEveryone also has the experience of friends just growing apart
>>220997785>Can someone explain this movie to me please?No man is an island,
>>220998548*ahem*
>>220998381You're weird, man, Ive lost count of all the fingers I've chopped off because I don't like someone no more. And I can't count them anymore either because, well.
>>220997785>I think I'm legitimately too retarded to understand the symbolism and meaning behind it.
>>220998030>His story is by far the saddest aspect of the film, but it’s played for laughs. The viewer instead feels terribly sad about a lost friendship and a dead farm animal, while a lonely, victimized young man quietly takes his own life.There's comedy in it but it's not "played for laughs", the movie has genuine sympathy for Barry's character. Dark comedies about legitimately tragic characters is McDonaugh's whole thing, we get a laugh of out the delivery of "there goes that dream" but the sadness of that story is no accident. Damn I wanna rewatch this kino now
>>220998566Shit you fucked him up big time
>>220997785The Ginger was old and depressed and realized he'd never be remembered as a musician because he peaked as the guy that plays the fiddle down at the pub. With his dumb friend being the embodiment of all the small town banality he hated. So he created an elaborate scheme to go down as a local legend by shattering his lifelong friendship and then mutilating himself when his friend tried to fix things. He couldn't play any instruments anymore, but he'd also become notorious and memorable that way.
>>220999437The molested boy is just a little tragedy where a kid that was smart and had a lot of potential was overlooked because of his circumstances and everyone being too self-centered to care about his suffering. He was traumatized and too smart for his own ability to put his thoughts in order, so he came off as a spastic and was treated with pity rather than respect. The sister was pretty smart, but she was also quite similar to the old ginger, in that she hated herself and her circumstances and the banality of living with no purpose or end in sight. She just wasn't pushed far enough to want to blow it all up. At the end she leaves for a brighter future, but the reality is that she's walking into an uncertain and unstable world where she has a great chance of sinking, really mostly out of some sense of desperation.
I couldn't help but see the parallel of being forgotten and not leaving a legacy but those men dying the Irish civil war were doing the same thing but yet they still make stories about them
>>220998432But in this case, the problem was external. She didn’t like where she lived or the small pool of people she had to interact with. She was unhappy with her circumstances and sought a change. That’s the right way to deal with life.
>>220998756It’s definitely played for laughs a bit. And everything about his story is intentional. Playing with the difference between comedy and tragedy is what makes it so interesting in my eyes. Trust me, it’s not a criticism.
>>220997785Pointlessness of white-on-white war
>>220999437I live in a small town that's consistently boring except for the friends and family that live right near me and I'm always torn about this, so I found the movie really relatable
There doesn't have to be symbology or a deeper meaning to everything.You could just enjoy the movie for the characters and the drama and how ridiculously over the top the happenings are.
