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Banshees of Inisherin: The Game

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Re: Banshees of Inisherin: The Game

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Post by lkschubert8 »

sph wrote: post #6

Based on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.

Honestly that is a good way to describe a lot of the works by McDonagh.

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Post by webkike »

sph wrote: post #6

Based on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.

It was a hilarious movie. It just also happened to be quite sad

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Post by imiric »

sph wrote: post #6

Based on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.

Absolutely loved the film. The acting and directing is superb. Colin Farrell's and Kerry Condon's performances are incredible, but Barry Keoghan steals the show.

This is one of my favorite scenes in recent memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIsqYO9l8w

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Post by NoboruWataya »

wyldfire wrote: post #8

"Banshees" was an interesting but puzzling film. I enjoyed it but I didn't think it was quite as approachable as McDonaghs other films. I suppose it's supposed to be an allegory to the futility of the Irish Civil War? If we the audience can't make a connection to something like that it feels a bit too abstract. I didn't make it far into the game, but it is a neat project.

The Civil War connection is obvious (it's explicitly referenced at several points in the movie) but my interpretation was that the Civil War was a mirror for the characters' interactions, not the other way around. To me the movie was more a commentary on various aspects of Irish society which can exacerbate problems and inhibit progress and healing - lack of communication, holding of grudges, a tendency towards self-punishment. Even though the main characters were pretty much all mad they were also oddly familiar.

I liked it more than Three Billboards, but not as much as the excellent In Bruges.

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Post by zulban »

k2enemy wrote: post #4

I found it incredibly hard to turn when I wanted to. Not sure if it is key detection or if I needed to have more precise timing.

It doesn't move like pacman, where it saves your keystroke momentarily. Instead you need to hold the key down until you reach a point where you can turn.

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Post by snozolli »

flappyeagle wrote: post #34
sph wrote: post #6

Based on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.

It was hilarious. My theater laughed out loud multiple times. Did you watch it on streaming?

It was brilliantly written and had a lot of laugh out loud moments, but it wasn't a comedy. It was extremely dark, just like the awful civil war that it was a metaphor for.

The melancholy, loneliness, and utterly pointless violence far outweighed the occasional laugh.

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Post by esrauch »

messe wrote: post #19
lopatin wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Umm... the two terms are synonymous to me. What distinction are you drawing?

There's another genre also commonly called Black Comedy where Black is African American not Dark.

To be fair, it is genuinely confusing to have that genre name collision.

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