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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.
You need more than a few "Twitter critics on a righteous circlejerk" to change its meaning.
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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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Agreed. Seems to really depend on the person. It came highly recommended to me by a family member, describing it as good and funny. I found it absolutely not funny, very strange, and didn't like any of it one bit. Shame, because I really like most of what both leads do.
Completely agree. I kept asking myself "why does this movie exist and why am I watching it?" I'd rather cut off a finger than watch it again. And making that joke was the only time I've laughed about that awful movie.
"What is art?" I started to enjoy film more when I understood that the best directors are just telling a story and not don't care if you like it or not. Of course you are free to hate it.
The same applies to any form of art.
If you want a movies easy to enjoy, there's the superhero blockbuster movies and Star Wars, I guess.
I rarely watch a movie that is so unpleasant that I wish I'd never seen it, but this one falls into that category. It is a dark exploration of isolated people suffering from profound mental illness. It is not even remotely similar to "In Bruges." But it is beautifully photographed.
No connection at all with the common antecedent: British imperialism; slavery in America's case and a colonial legacy of partition imposed at gun point in Ireland's.
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Completely agree. I kept asking myself "why does this movie exist and why am I watching it?" I'd rather cut off a finger than watch it again. And making that joke was the only time I've laughed about that awful movie.
> "why does this movie exist?" "What is art?" I started to enjoy film more when I understood that the best directors are just telling a story and not don't care if you like it or not. Of course you are free to hate it. The same applies to any form of art. If you want a movies easy to enjoy, there's the superhero blockbuster movies and Star Wars, I guess.
What makes a director/story writer so exalted as to have better stories?
The best movies, IMO, are those that can tell a story while drawing the audience in. Whether through comedy, sadness, shock, etc.
This movie was just a person telling a very weird story. Taken at pure face value, and ignoring the actors' talent, it sounds more like a story a random drunk person on a bus would tell.
I understand art is completely subjective, so I'm in no place to say you're wrong. But it's kinda dismissive to tell someone who hated it to watch superhero movies. Now -those- really shouldn't be made.
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.
Its a truly incredible film, but has a few subtleties that may be hard to catch at first glance. Pay attention to the colors that people are wearing (green, orange, red, and blue) for the deeper subtext of relationships of the political situation in Ireland. I may be missing a detail or two, and would happily be corrected, but for the curious: - Green = Catholics / IRA supporters - Yellow/Orange = Protestants - Red =…
I'm asking because I picked up a hitchhiker way back when that was an ordinary thing to do, and he was a vocational school grad, but told me this whole thing about how the Wizard of Oz was a parable about the gold standard (follow the yellow bricks to the Emerald City) vs greenback dollar, with the cowardly lion (Dept of Defence) and the Tin Man (midwest industrial might) and Scarecrow (agriculture), pitting the witches of the North and South and East and West... you get the picture. It's a very tight theory, and I was shocked I hadn't learned this in my college track/college career.
and I believed it for the next decades till I found out: it wasn't true.
So I ask you again, is this something you know you know? I only have time left to believe one new thing and I need to be sure of it
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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
Loved it too, It's funny in the absurdity of it all and the dialogue. There's a delicate balance of dark humour, the Irish charm of the setting and characters, and subtle deeper aspects that emerge from initially simple seeming characters that tops it all off. Not to mention the excellent acting. But I suspect a lot of that is a subjective taste, so it's not surprising it's not widely appreciated.
I find Irish people perfectly charming, but when it comes to the themes of Irish film and literature, charming does not oft spring to my lips. Did you watch this film to the end? warmed the cockles of your heart did it?
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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
If I'm being honest, I have no idea what's going on in this scene.
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.
Agreed. Seems to really depend on the person. It came highly recommended to me by a family member, describing it as good and funny. I found it absolutely not funny, very strange, and didn't like any of it one bit. Shame, because I really like most of what both leads do.
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.