The Banshees of Inisherin is an allegory that skewers the Irish. ‘A Man Called Otto’ has a good message for a new year.
It must be a great relief for Colin Farrell to finally be in a film in which he can speak with an Irish accent. A tragi-comedy of insularity, Martin McDonagh’sis set on a island off the west coast of Ireland in the 1920s. There is no actual place called Inisherin, but one assumes the director and his lead actors are familiar with what goes on in a small Irish village. This tale, at once so absurd, also has a terrible ring of reality.
When Siobhán asks Colm what’s going on, he tells her he’s decided that her brother is nothing more than a drag on his valuable time. Colm plays the violin and has musical ambitions. He feels the years are passing swiftly, and he needs to devote himself to his compositions, so he can leave something behind. He’s currently working on a tune calledFor Pádraic, this makes no sense.
When his friend rejects him, Pádraic is reduced to the company of his sister and a miniature donkey.What begins as a story of provincial buffoonery gradually reveals itself as an allegory of Irish history and character. I don’t know why allegories are all the rage in films nowadays, but this one is especially poignant.As life goes on in Inisherin, civil war is raging on the mainland, and this is viewed by some as a very exciting thing.
Colm makes an arbitrary decision that he doesn’t like Pádraic any more, driving his former friend to desperation. Every effort to make amends leads to a more extreme rejection. Even though Colm has moments when he feels an obvious sympathy and affection for Pádraic, having made a decision, his superhuman stubbornness won’t permit a backward step. The struggle continues until Pádraic becomes just as twisted and stubborn. This, says McDonagh, is the story of the Irish.
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