movies are life

[@nathansnook]

omg the way i was about to call you about the fire alarm 😭😭😭 Millenium Mambo is such a vibe! one of my favorites and looove the soundtrack. hits different when you take the taxi from the club home with the windows rolled down seeing the cityscape ✨🌃

[@TomBrzezicki]

For the most part, I enjoyed “The Banshees of Inisherin” when I saw it last year at my local independent cinema. I was taken with its depiction of a village community on a small island off the western coast of Ireland, the sort of place where everyone knows everyone else, and the smallest details of a person’s life do not pass unobserved by one’s neighbours. Although the breakdown in the friendship between Colm (Brendan Gleeson) and Pádraic (Colin Farrell) is the main story of the film, I also enjoyed the close relationship between Pádraic and his sister, Siobhán (Kerry Condon), living together in their tiny cottage where they share the one bedroom. I also liked the visuals of the film, the earthy-looking 1920s costumes, and the island setting. There is a lot of humour in the film, and I remember laughing out loud during the scene where Colm goes to confession and gets into a curse-laden argument with the local priest. Where “Banshees” began to lose me and I felt myself detaching emotionally from the story was when the feud between Colm and Pádraic descended into actual physical harm and self-mutilation, and the death of an innocent bystander, Pádraic’s pet donkey Jenny. Initially, I was sympathetic to Colm's desire to have some peace and quiet and time to himself, away from Padraic's inane chatter. But as the film progressed and Colm's behaviour became more bizarre, I shifted over to Padraic's side. The violence seemed both pointless and gratuitous and out-of-keeping with the earlier part of the film. There are film critics who interpret “Banshees” as a parable of the 1922-’23 Irish Civil War, when Irishmen who had fought alongside each other against the British during the War of Independence from 1919 to 1921, turned their guns against each other on the question of whether or not to accept the Treaty negotiated with the British government to end the conflict. To my mind, the threats and violence perpetrated by Colm and Pádraic against each other, and especially by Colm against himself, only make sense if they are seen as a mirror of the events taking place in Irish politics and society at the time. When Siobhán decides to leave Inisherin in search of a job and a better life on the main island, she is imitating generations of Irish people who left their homeland to seek their fortunes overseas, mainly in America. The next time, Kiran, you’re in the mood for an Irish film, I would highly recommend (as I have before), “An Cailín Ciúin”-“The Quiet Girl”-an Irish language film released in Ireland and the UK to tremendous public and critical acclaim in May 2022, and shown here in North America beginning last March, though the film didn’t receive nearly the theatre distribution it deserved on this side of the Atlantic. If you do have an opportunity to see “The Quiet Girl”, try not to let it be as an in-flight movie, or as a movie you watch in installments. The film is only 95 minutes long, and deserves the movie-lover’s complete, undivided, and uninterrupted attention for that relatively modest run-time.

[@bookum]

The Banshees was an enjoyable film for sure! Great video Kiran

[@kiranreader]

thank you!!

[@Whoisjohn.D]

You look so ethereal in that light.

[@kiranreader]

thank you!

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

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[@kiranreader]

💖💖

[@WillMaiJunior]

As a martial artists I must watch from time to time Cobra Kai, and just watching Soap Operas Drama international series. No biggie.

[@kiranreader]

love that!!!

[@Lokster71]

That light makes you look like your in a Renaissance painting. Banshees is on my list. I will not be watching Real Housewives of anywhere. Sorry. It's just not my cup of tea.

[@kiranreader]

thank you!! you should def watch Banshees! would love to get your thoughts on it