Swept away!
This is a great show! What really sticks out to me
is the acting. Of course, the lead actor plays someone
with autism, which is probably challenging, but all the
supporting roles are also played amazingly well.
The story line is easy to follow, and you really
get to know the characters. Great show!
Easy to watch
Main storyline quality: 8/10
Originality: 7/10
Side storylines quality: 8/10
Progression of main story line: 10/10
Story development: 7/10
Characters: 9/10
Consistency: 9/10
Intensity (cliffhangers, edge of seat and the like): -
Acting and directing: 9/10
Comedy: 6/10
Drama: 8/10
Romance: 6/10
(Please like comment if helpful, and I'll keep writing them this way)
Adored this movie. Solid performances, amazing screenplay, and McDonagh’s most gorgeous looking film to date. All of the actors were fantastic in this. This has to be my favorite film of the year.
One of my favorite moments of the film was Siobhan correcting Colm about Mozart. It shows that Colm was not as smart as he appeared to be, and cracked open his wise old man facade. He was being truthful to about his reasons for tanking the friendship, but his methods for doing so are still bullshit. He is wise, but also bitter and stubborn, and that so he thinks that the key to breaking his monotony is by suffering.
Colm resents Pádraic for being content with his simple life and not being concerned with having a legacy or being remembered beyond those he cares about in life. Colm, due to his frustration with his own existence, concludes that the only reason Pádraic is so content and untroubled is because he is dull and stupid.
Ironically I think Pádraic is actually Colm's muse, after each encounter with an impassioned Pádraic Colm seems to progress with his work on his magnum opus 'The Banshees of Inisherin'.
Moral of the story, in my opinion, is that men create meaningless conflict for contrived reasons and that leads to innocents being hurt (kind of like a civil war).
