For a real uplifting holiday season, watch this, followed by The Menu. A double feature of self-indulgent nonsense.
You zoomers should stop hiding your feeblemindedness behind the mask of anti-elitism. There is nothing pretentious about this movie.
shareI am older, and I also feel it is pretentious. It was trying to be so subtle about the message, that it ended up having no message.
shareThere was no direct message. Not every movie has to be structured like children's story. If you wish, call it a "slice of life" story.
The film doesn't try to be artful, nor philosophical. I understood it as discourse on "simple life/worldview VS intellectualism" and conclusions are left to the viewer. Padric and Dominic are depicted in somewhat comical way, but Colm is ridiculed for his pretentious way of talking and erroneously putting Mozart in 17th century. Sioban is shown as egoistical (bluntly rejecting Dominic's feelings and leaving his brother to work in the city). But that is how real life is - smart chicks don't like dimwits and intellectuals find simple people boring, like it or not. The movie doesn't take either side, it just makes a story out of it.
Yes, it makes a story out it, just not a compelling one. I didn’t really care for what was going on or for the characters.
The film is very overrated.
I agree with your descriptions of what's happening. A story of what kind, though? I was hoping for a story about an actual friendship, like the trailer said. But no, this wasn't just a psychological horror, and thankfully it held back from literal horror style, but it was dark trip into the caverns of abnormal psychology, with an archetypal flavour. Celtic myths and histories must be full of archetypes, but I dk them. It was a dark psychoanalysis of sadism and masochism, of the drive to unique and eternal excellence versus dead average middle of the road lowest of the brows mentality. Less literally, most people have a slothful side and also an ambitious or big-dreaming side. And often they are in conflict and no one wins, as here.
shareSubtle?! The civil war cannons cracking in the background did nothing to spell it out for you? In this movie about two close friends who… have a civil war…?
shareWhy do you call it self-indulgent?
shareSame reason the kids in the Peanuts cartoon were laughing. Because they didn't understand it.
Not sure who the self could be that might have been indulged here. Maybe Sioban, alone, was spared. That's hardly indulged, as it's the result of her own wit and efforts.
Apparently few can recognize the archetype of the very self-destructive yet top notch musician.
Agree.
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