https://fictionmachine.com/2022/12/24/review-the-banshees-of-inisherin-2022/ Deconstructing the machinery of cinema. Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:50:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://fictionmachine.com/2022/12/24/review-the-banshees-of-inisherin-2022/comment-page-1/#comment-18207 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:50:50 +0000 http://fictionmachine.com/?p=14367#comment-18207 Thank you! Finally a review that reflects my experience with Banshees of Inisherin. It was brilliant, but I was not prepared for the level of, as you said, pervasive menace and violence. Growing up in a small town, I understood to my core the relationships portrayed- they are everything. When they go bad, people can become untethered. Even writing about it now, the idea that violence might be an acceptable next step seems a logical eventuality for those who feel trapped or abandoned. You could feel Colm’s desperation to be left alone as much as Pádraic’s desperation to understand or change it. Maybe it was the crudeness of the violence in the movie that was so jarring, especially when, in the end, they are left in the same place. I wish someone would have warned me that it was a comedic horror film. It is unexpectedly triggering and, yes, terrifying. Colm kept hurting himself to teach someone a lesson or as punishment. The cruelty is what I did not expect. I could have done without it in order to make this a film I could wholeheartedly recommend.

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