Strange, Disturbing Irish Short Film | Televised Éireann

The movie that traumatised generations of Irish people. But why?
"An exhausted business woman named Catherine is sitting on a train reading a romantic novel. It is established that this is the only time in the day where she has time for herself, as she is otherwise caring for her aging mother. A blind man with asthma called Pól sits across from her. He proceeds to annoy her and prevent her from reading her book in peace by making loud noises, asking peculiar questions and telling inane stories. When Catherine gets sick of Pól constantly annoying her, she begins to taunt and confuse him. Eventually, she tells him that a piece of the sweet cake that he is eating has a worm in it. When she tells him this he panics and begins to suffer from an asthma attack. He attempts to find his inhaler on the table, but Catherine quietly takes it and hides it from Pól. As he suffocates, she places the inhaler back down on the table just out of his reach. Pól slumps over in his seat as Catherine disembarks from the train."
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[@dpdfpdffgp]

what if i *dont* ok sorry

[@t.dominey4150]

As a Brit, I was more terrified by the man talking to a stranger on public transport than the man dying.

[@kane357lynch]

Speaking to another human?? Would never be the british

[@macswanton9622]

It would've been well tempered if paired with a 'Two Ronnies' or two.

[@sandwichenjoyer4253]

from New York, once a tourist made like 7 seconds of eye contact so I stared her down until she left

[@hossdelgado626]

I'm from Kentucky in the U.S. originally. Generally people will talk your ear off or keep their head down and just try to get done and be gone with whatever it is they are doing

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

@@hossdelgado626 Here in germany i never heard someone do smalltalk with a stranger... but i also hear that "cultural" differences like that can even be different from one city to another. In general i prefer it as i hate smalltalk ^^

[@alden1132]

I'm 100% convinced he isn't the first man Catherine has killed.

[@JTA1961]

Well trained & keeping track

[@PossumMedic]

It was clearly just a morbid fantasy! Proven by the way the train travels sideways and the dark cave lights the train car! 😜

[@wooblydooblygod3857]

The old bag is next

[@himagainstill]

The trivia section on the film's IMDB entry has this absolute gem: "Many audience members were very surprised to find out that despite his realistic portrayal of a blind man Brendan Gleeson can in fact see."

[@michaellavery4899]

Actors. Is there no end to their talents?

[@dlxmarks]

Also Gleeson did not actually cut off his fingers and throw them at Colin Farrell.

[@comettamer]

The most disturbing aspects of this are the closeups of Brendan Gleesons mouth, and the callous disregard Catharine had for helping to end a man's life, simply because she was inconvenienced by him.

[@narnzipan]

Ikr?? 😖 Brendan's mouth was... Incredible. There was some very strange sexual tension going on in this film. 😳 ew! Ew! Ewwww!!

[@Sealdeam]

Specially when it ends with her just walking away which she could had easily done in any moment, could had said "hey mister I am going to the John (or the Sean I guess since it is in Irish)" pick her stuff and never come back. To me it seems like she was waiting all her life to do something like that, like that guy in NY that patiently waited for a random mugging so he could justifiably blast someone off.

[@comettamer]

@@narnzipan I mean, they definitely had some weird love affair going on with his mouth. I have no idea why.

[@comettamer]

@@Sealdeam I mean, id believe that. Which if true has some extremely disturbing ramifications if (when?) Catherine returns to her mother.

[@chele-chele]

Can't wait for the sequel where she takes care of the old lady, can't be bothered to get her to the can now!

[@LaneCorbett]

A woman gets annoyed by an asmatic blind man so she trolls him to the point of killing him with an asma attack. Dang Irish film is interesting

[@m3nacingsnarl264]

It’s even more interesting that , the first time our teacher showed us this film, we were like 10. It was very disturbing LMAO

[@LaneCorbett]

@@m3nacingsnarl264 Ireland wilin

[@LTPottenger]

Before the internet we had to make our own fun

[@harryhotspur4142]

I THOUGHT THEY ONLY DID THAT IN NY AND CHICAGO BEFORE THEY STARTED SHOOTING PEOPLE INSTEAD......LIKE WHERE THAT CULLUD WIMMENZES MAYOR HAD SAY "I HAD HAVED THE MOST BIGGEST DICK IN CHICAGO"....DOIN' DIVERSIFTATION AND STUFF..

[@pinkertonbyweezer]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO COVER THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS FOR YEARS, it feels so uniquely Irish to have a story about a woman letting a blind man die because she was inconvenienced by him

[@pinkertonbyweezer]

For the love of God please get to Yu Ming is Anim Dom or Lipservice

[@SlimTheydy]

I mean this is the same country that thinks disabled people can survive off €208 a week, we've treated disabled people like shit since it was the priests and nuns running the show.

[@Xorthane]

And then making 16-18 year olds analyse it for a state exam

[@HOP805]

I'm curious, did any of the kids that watched this film ever ask why she didnt just move seats instead of scaring him like a psychopath? Much love to Ireland from America aswell, you guys gave us the gift of delicious Stout beer.

[@Xorthane]

@@HOP805 ye, we just kinda laugh at how stupid it is but still have to learn it

[@irish3641]

Another classic is "Yu-Ming is ainm dom" ( My name is Yu-Ming ) the short film about a Chinese teenager who grows weary of everyday life in his country and decides by spinning a globe and having his finger land on it, that he's moving to Ireland. He begins studying the Irish language extensively ( there's a scene where he recites the phrase from Taxi Driver " An bhfuil tusa ag labhairt liomsa? " or " Are you talkin' to me? " ) and becomes fluent. When he arrives to Ireland he finds through trial and error that no-one there speaks it (I think he was in Dublin or something like that) anyway, he finds an old Irishspeaking man that gets him a job in a pub in an Irish speaking county and he's happy out. I'm pretty sure the message of the movie was that Ireland was losing its heritage cause we're so anglicised.

[@daminox]

I didnt even know Irish was a language until I saw this video.

[@irish3641]

@@daminox loads of people don't lmao

[@stigrabbid589]

@@daminox The Welsh and Manx languages are related to Irish if I remember right.

[@ForOurGood]

We really don't hear the Irish language internationally enough, it is a shame, it sounds pretty cool. As for this video.. 10/10 for disturbing... Thanks Ireland!

[@PlumSack79]

Quiet, you simpleton

[@tldredhistory8391]

@@PlumSack79 gDhún do glab amadán.

[@tldredhistory8391]

Ní laibhríonn a lán daoine Gaeilge amach ó an tír. Ach laibhraíonn na daoine ó an Gaeltacht é gach lá. *translation* 🇮🇪 A lot of people in Ireland don’t speak Irish outside the country. But people from the Gaeltacht will normally speak it every day. ------------ Here is some Irish you can use ☘️ Dhia dhuit - god be with you. (hello) Connas a tá tú - how are you? Táim ar mhuin na múice, tú féin? - I’m on the pigs back, yourself? (great!) 😃 Sláin go fóil, a chara. - see you soon, friend. 👋 Le meas Do Chara, (name) - with respect, your friend (name) (If your writing a letter).

[@ForOurGood]

@@tldredhistory8391 Hey thanks for that ;-) very interesting! I can speak English & Japanese some Chinese and Italian, so I am always interested in new languages. Give me some good Irish message to send to Putin, as well as something to support the Ukrainians.

[@PlumSack79]

@@ForOurGood "support", what like changing your Facebook profile pic to the Ukrainian flag? Why don't you come join us in the actual support? Ukraine is paying $1-$2 K US per day for volunteers

[@Regularguy220]

As a child who had asthma, i was traumatised when my sister showed me the clip of the man dying when i was like 9. This is the first time ive ever seen the full film. Im still confused

[@iamsean92]

i have asthma. my first time seeing any of this. very bizarre.

[@beeftec5862]

Not the full film though? Anyone got a link to watch the whole thing?

[@Regularguy220]

@@beeftec5862 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYiQpZeXhJemb9E He basically went over all of it

[@iamsean92]

@@Regularguy220 i saw enough. i'll pass.

[@jamesrussell2936]

how could you watch a film if you were blind???

[@digbick1663]

Ah Cáca mílis, a cautionary tale for every young Irishman on the perils of annoying Irishwomen. I certainly mind my own business when on public transport now! Catherine was not be trifled with.

[@MadScientist267]

Mum is still sitting in the car...

[@johnladuke6475]

Honestly I saw it coming as soon as she gave him the first fit. You could see the lighbulb over her head realizing she could easily murder him.

[@buckberthod5007]

Reading a book like that, id have asked her for supper and a show 😂

[@YoutubeChannel-ll6sw]

"on the perils of annoying irishwomen" i agree, women are annoying

[@flashrobbie]

pretty sure they show it to the type of serial killer who decides to make 30-70 pre-emptive strikes

[@upstating]

"...but, lads, I read the single mother suicide book..." It's when he says these things in an outright passive and semi-indifferent tone I remember my grandmother, who was born in Ireland (naturalized American in her later years). Talking with her she would casually move between banality and topics of existential dread with a disposition of someone remembering the need to take a trip to the bank after running into the father of a teller. I don't know how to describe it to someone who hadn't met or interacted with her.

[@humblemestizo5442]

I'm just picturing the exchange in smiling friends between Charlie and his Grandma in terms of tone

[@riograndedosulball248]

My grandma was exactly like this: -yes yes it was nice to work in the family flour mill, hard work but I liked it and... [small change in talk theme, two minutes pass] ...my neighbor cleaved his brother in half with a scythe over two pounds of ham. For real, and with the same naturality as talking about her infancy.

[@belltowersubductions5104]

As an Irishman... yeah, we do that a lot. One memory drilled into my brain was when my grandmother and my parents were having a chat about the family tree, and the discussion went from random obscure cousins to the story of one of my relatives who worked at a bank being taken hostage during a heist done by the IRA during the troubles back to random obscure family members without missing a single beat. It does sometimes feel weird that people from other countries will skirt around sensitive topics or avoid them altogether, meanwhile we're over here making small talk about how everything everywhere is fucked and always has been and always will be, in between random comments on the weather.

[@massman3698]

There’s actually a line in Blade a Runner that I think fits perfectly with describing Caca Millis to an American like me: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe”

[@robbylava]

An obscure short being *mandated* and becoming a cult classic... this is like the ultimate pipe dream for student filmmakers.

[@faustocrapiz136]

Hot takes on the drama: Woman is burdened by "mother". When attempting to forsake "mother" and enjoy sensual pleasures she's reburdened with the weight of the blind man. Cake represents sustenance and the man is completely at the behest of others to give him what he wants. She then tests her power over the "annoyance". The blind man poses the same problem to her and since there's no bond between them, she kills him. Still really damn disturbing.

[@wendiplays]

Mother of the year I bet XD

[@hausser0815]

wait what? you cant know any of this. the clip starts with the end of their journey, where she drops of her mother. if her mother is an actual burden to her is never specified. and women tend to read those types of books all the time. and also, do people with asthma always die when they dont use their inhaler? or is he just unconscious?

[@nublet9474]

youre already halfway to writing your irish final exams, congrats

[@coreytaylor447]

hot take on the drama: its just a sfucking. hort film about an annoying blind man on a train to test language comprehension.

[@alerey4363]

@@hausser0815 "if her mother is an actual burden to her is never specified" now we know you're a centennial or millenial; wait to be 50 and your parent is 80, then come back to like this comment.

[@traumgeist]

The train is Limbo. That’s why the cake materializes out of nowhere and is perfectly intact despite being hauled around in a paper bag that’s become battered after being hauled around by a clumsy simpleton. That’s why the light on the table comes out of nowhere. At some point before the woman boarded the train she died and the rest of the film is about her journey to the afterlife. Very good use of foreshadowing by the director throughout. I give it a thumbs up.

[@greeneggsandsam2014]

And the blind man is the test of morality, like the scales of cerebus

[@leopold7562]

Blimey, that’s a much more intriguing concept than “woman lets man die because he’s a bit irritating”. And it makes me want an epilogue, one where she heads out of the station, to be met at the door by the blind guy. Scared now, she hears him say, “What colour is the cake?” whilst holding aloft a Devils Food cake adorned with the message, “You lose”. And then he points to the escalator heading down, with the ominous red light and strange noises and uncomfortable warmth.

[@harryhotspur4142]

SO THAT'S A LITTLE GAELIC HELL THING? I KNEW THAT LOOKED LIKE MY DECEASED EX-WIFE...WELL....SHE MADE THE BIG TIME AND GOT INTO INFIERNO PRODUCTIONS POST MORTEM I S'POSE..

[@Studeb]

Brendan Gleeson did a similar scene about dead people in limbo in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. His acting was better in that.

[@brendanoneill6267]

You just wait till you're a 70 year old woman trying to hold in your gin breakfast with a pelvic floor like the rotted out floor of a mobile home that's been sitting in the woods for 20 years

[@notoriousgoblin83]

And remember, don't piss your daughter off too hard or she'll push you out of the wheelchair and pop a few more holes in there

[@samanthaivyleigh]

Best description of women becoming incontinent with age ever🏅

[@anewspinonthings]

Yo dude your animation skills really improved. This looks so realistic

[@ACE53621]

😂

[@12345.......]

Watching a sloppy eater is torture.

[@mattsrealitycheck6669]

Listening to it 🤮

[@artdonovandesign]

Pure torture! Done to exquisite perfection. Disgusting!

[@spacejihadist4246]

That's what she said.

[@spacejihadist4246]

That's what she said.

[@evan.f1738]

For the love of God please do the more of the Irish short films at some stage. There’s a lot of weird shit in there. There’s one about kids drowning at sea (An T-adh), one where a character solely speaks en español, the really long to explain Cúilín Dualach and An Teanga Rúnda and I believe it’s due to needing a certain amount of them, so they just accept as much as they can get, as long as it involves the use of Irish by at least one or two characters (Yu Ming is Anim Dom, Fluent Dysphasia). A lot of these films have this weird cursedness to them. Give up Auls yer Sins is one I remember growing up with that I found weird.

[@Not_Athena]

Omg i remember An T-adh

[@ClickPopBoom]

here in the US our English classes focused on beloved pets dying. Over the course of a year we read Old Yeller, Where The Red Ferns Grow, and Marly and Me as well as a book about a girl who had a cat that died and a short story about a disabled kid whose only friend was his parrot...... who also died. I can't be the only one who had to read these books right? At least I had a really cool history teacher who got in trouble for showing Saving Private Ryan to a class of 11 year olds

[@sosogo4real]

I never had that. Maybe your teacher was going through a rough patch.

[@LTPottenger]

You must be in a red state. You missed out on Catcher in the Rye, Ponyboy, Color Purple, so much other garbage lol

[@mustangnawt1]

Read where Where the Red Fern Grows on my own 30 yrs ago. Boo hoo cried for days

[@HOP805]

I'm curious, did any of the kids that watched this film ever ask why she didnt just move seats instead of scaring him like a psychopath?

[@m3nacingsnarl264]

Yea, that was a huge question when our class watched this. Teacher just changed the subject, so I guess we will never know

[@HOP805]

@@m3nacingsnarl264 wow, That's really wierd of the teacher to dodge the question, thank you for answering! Its really interesting to hear about ireland, and other countries alike because I'm from America, and its honestly extremely boring here. Thanks.

[@SlimTheydy]

@@HOP805 I said it somewhere else, but basically when she realised she could hurt the a man, it was the first time she smiled, she enjoyed hurting him, tormenting him, because it was a form of stress relief for her as her mother's caretaker, because she had, over time, ended up hating disabled people. Now she could finally live out her cathartic fantasy

[@Yezpahr]

@@m3nacingsnarl264 That teacher was a woman I presume? She probably raised it as a weird woman-empowering indoctrination ploy and then didn't want to pull through all the way when questions were asked because at the time you were just a bunch of kids who wouldn't understand the implications yet. This woman in the movie treated the man bad because she is bad, it had nothing to do with either of the genders (or any rainbowgenders made up post 2020). The fact he said "a woman" pissed her off because in her eyes he isn't worthy and that sent her into a hormonal frenzy, that's as far as the gender part goes.

[@m3nacingsnarl264]

@@Yezpahr it’s not that deep lmao. No need to psychoanalyse my 2nd class teacher bc he didn’t know why someone decided to commit atrocities.

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

Ah yes, the short film that scarred us for our school days

[@HOP805]

I'm curious, did any of the kids that watched this film ever ask why she didnt just move seats instead of scaring him like a psychopath?

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

@@HOP805 yep. Every single one

[@MadScientist267]

@@HOP805 scaring? Damn even a short movie is too long to watch all the way to the end today? 🤦‍♂️🤣

[@cacamilis8477]

I'm terribly sorry.

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

@@cacamilis8477 you my friend, are a legend 🤣🤣🤣

[@FatBlackGamerCat]

The film seems pretty clear to me. You have this blind guy, who honestly wasn't that bad. She could have just told him that she wasn't in the mood to talk. I think that's why you see the empty train car in the end as she's walking away. She didn't have to put up with the guy. I think you start out empathizing with Catherine (or some people do; I didn't find that guy that annoying) and thinking the blind guy is the weird one, then you realize by the end that Catherine is the one who isn't "normal." She did kinda abandon the elderly lady in the beginning. So yeah, seems like a horror film to me. Maybe you could ask about if Catherine is maybe emotionally tired from working an underappreciated job? Still, I think the main point is that Catherine is a psychopath, and you should respect disabled people or people who are generally vulnerable instead of taking advantage of their weakness. Part of me feels like having a woman as the asshole in this film feels wrong or sexist, but at the same time, maybe it's that way for a reason, to address that sometimes people who are vulnerable themselves sometimes take out their stress and frustration on people more vulnerable than they are instead of empathizing and being kind to other struggling people. Not saying that to criticize any demographics in particular, but, yeah... I think "Cáca Milis" is a good film, and...I feel like I've seen it before? Like alongside that one weird film where the guy is telling the lady whose loved one just died about how he saw a cow explode from methane gas, and the lady jumps off the train. Has a similar feeling. This film is so familiar, but I can't remember when I saw it!

[@LTPottenger]

I figured it was a warning against blindness from t2 diabetes

[@MindinViolet]

This film takes “It’s so bad it’s good” to a whole new level.

[@smincesmeat316]

The cruelly irritating vs the irritatingly cruel. 10/10

[@FitzPenn]

The duality of man

[@Noah_Levi]

Love the Televised Éireann "series". fantastic insight into things id never have heard about. Also haven't seen blade runner 🤦

[@Forflipsake]

I’m English. Was that tv series like the cooke report? That’s shit was legendary.

[@pauly260]

We have a wonderful movie here in the United States on this level. Starring the famed Canadian Shakespearean actor Thomas Green, it’s a dark tale of love with a wheelchair-bound woman, his life with a disappointed father, an overreaching mother, a dead deer, broken dreams & redemption. It’s called Freddie Got Fingered.

[@Periwinkleaccount]

I’d*

[@tldredhistory8391]

You haven’t lived until you have seen blade runner.

[@artdonovandesign]

Hated Blade Runner. Over rated. A high school-senior view of 'dystopian darkness'. But that's just me. I want the REAL darkness. I'm Irish.

[@BootScoot]

There's a somewhat similar story to the one you mentioned at the end that we read in English classes in the US called the Scarlet Letter A woman has a child out of wedlock in the 1600s, the father being the town pastor. She refuses to tell who the father of the child is and has a red letter A sewn onto her clothing to brand her as an adulterer. The father gets found out as he's about to set sail for Europe with the mother and daughter and right before he's caught, kills himself after declaring he's the father to a crowd.

[@alerey4363]

Production errors aside, this could be about getting away with the perfect murder had she not left her fingerprints on the inhaler; and if you think the punishment the blind man got was disproportionate, well yes, but in real life we see plenty of people getting shot just for honking the horn in traffic.

[@JTA1961]

Or in Arizona stealing the last shaded parking spot

[@sisyphusvasilias3943]

Or singing Kareoke badly........ *wink wink

[@mitsubishilancerevox8707]

You think the gardaí would even bother?

[@daminox]

How on earth does one disproportionate punishment justify another? What an insane leap of logic.

[@alerey4363]

@@daminox in the mind of the punisher it's perfectly logic; you never know who you're messing with: the most calm and collected guy can build up steam, internally, until one day a single event triggers him and all the stored pressure boils out in that reaction; if you only take that "snapshot" it may look disproportionate; but life is a movie my friend, not a picture.

[@tommurphy3673]

DONT YOU CALL CÁCA MILIS STRANGE. because its a lot worse than strange (and yes we are still doing cáca milis, sitting the leaving this June and my teacher tortured us to study this). I think you are talking about An Triail (but i dunno we didnt do it)

[@tommurphy3673]

@warrior ok bot

[@m3nacingsnarl264]

Yea, he was talking about An Triail. Specifically, the main character (Máire) kills herself and her daughter by shoving their heads into a gas oven. It’s.... horrifying.. we are currently studying if for the junior cert, and I... it’s interesting to say the least LMFAO

[@tommurphy3673]

@@m3nacingsnarl264 oh ye do novels for the JC now? We just looked at poems and prose

[@px8]

@@tommurphy3673 Yall Irish people have awesome schools lol, we just do borin old Shakespeare but it's interesting to see how culture impacts education. Shakespeare isn't even funny or modern :(

[@tommurphy3673]

@@px8 dont worry we still do shakespeare, doing Othello now and during my junior cert i did merchant of venice

[@debrissquinlivan]

Caca milis is still being studied in every class in my year, even the pass Irish classes

[@FriedrichHerschel]

So ... what's the point of the film then?

[@russellnindynine5905]

@@FriedrichHerschel and how did mad eye moody get involved other than maybe he’s from Ireland? What year was this.

[@TheLonelyBrit]

@@russellnindynine5905 Either he started in smaller films like this, did it as a favour to a friend, or like Olivia Colman in Peep Show, he did it cause he like it? IDK.

[@mitsubishilancerevox8707]

@@TheLonelyBrit i think he did it to support the education of gaeilge as it was made to promote it.

[@Jonathan.D]

We had two blind guys that worked in customer service. They were always neat and clean. I was impressed with their ability to listen to the customer on one side of the headphones and listen to the computer system on the other. It was kind of funny how the two of them looked like Ray Charles with their heads back and swaying side to side as they tickled those keys. George oh Georgia!😁

[@narnzipan]

Wowwwww.... Low whistle. That was, special! I'm blown away. You say this is used in education for Irish. Each line spoken, from 'i need to go to the toilet', to 'a woman', sounds like they were written with the lines to teach kids how to speak certain phrases. Like a tourist guide to a country you're visiting. Maybe the brilliant scripting came from them trying to fit in each phrase more than any actual story line. Imagine trying to write a script from a list of phrases and trying to fit them in, I can kinda see how this film came to be within that framework. Thanks for your awesome commentary and the Irish insight into this exotic movie, I've been taken to a whole new world! 😂

[@ookler538]

I remember having to learn about this in secondary school... How disturbing.

[@digbick1663]

I'd Reccomend "Yu Ming is Ainm Dom" its another short film that was shown in schools and would be good for a televised Eireann video

[@SkratchersOtherWorseChannel]

Great film. Remember it well.

[@joshuagraham9770]

That one is actually good unlike caca milis

[@Banter07]

I think I saw it somewhere, i think it’s about a Chinese chap who intends to leave China and go elsewhere, and selected Ireland. He learnt Irish, and Ireland-speaking-english hijinks ensue. Am I correct in saying this?

[@evan.f1738]

@@Banter07 exactly. Also the guy who plays Father Jack is just there. The film and its weird “an bhfuil tusa at abhair liomsa” scene have become in my school (at least for the year) a somewhat continuous inside joke.

[@jamesjanson6129]

A Chinese guy who learns Gaelic in Bejing and comes to Ireland thinking everyone speaks Gaelic, but no one can understand a word he is saying until he meets an old guy in a pub who does understand him and sets him to right about the plight of the Gaelic tounge in Ireland?... Not surprised the Irish Dept of education would choose that little propaganda piece. Maybe if they quit making it compulsory, and actually tried to teach it as a conversational language rather than beating the maith cannaladh[SIC] into everyone at the start, they might save the lingo and after 14 years of compulsory indoctrination in it, people might continue speaking it post their oral Irish exam. That was the last time I ever spoke Gaelic.

[@Zanytiger6]

This is just “The Tell-Tale Heart” but in Ireland. Old man has an ailment that the main character feels in annoying, so they kill them.

[@arturskovrigo3915]

The last part is true, I have never been to Ireland, nor seen blade runner, but this masterpiece is now forever in my memory.

[@JTA1961]

It truly takes the cake

[@syrius20]

Now go and watch Blade Runner! I believe it has aged nicely for a 40 year old movie...

[@icecoffee907]

as a completely blind person, I love how the visually impaired dude is portrayed to be completely hopeless with nothing better to do. And, if you're wondering how I'm able to navigate KZbin or type of comment out because I'm blind, it's a screen reader. Look it up.

[@ferdinand12390]

now my question is: how did you find this particular video?

[@MadScientist267]

The best part is how you watch the videos lol

[@SlimTheydy]

@@ferdinand12390 Google assistant can read out notifications assuming they were subscribed to Qxir already

[@daviddavidson2357]

You might have accidentally held the shift key down when setting up your username.

[@HubertofLiege]

Is the view as good for you as me?

[@Livi_Noelle]

Things I learned today: 1. Irish and Spanish are very different languages. 2. There are things from Ireland that are more obnoxious than U2. 3. I need that woman as a dominatrix. 4. The cake is not a lie.

[@mortimer687]

down horrendous

[@NoneOne]

down bad

[@munastronaut8147]

down bad

[@polasamierwahsh421]

Good mommy material

[@RQBtv]

ah great, strangely placed perversion

[@nerium.nerium]

I'd say this is a dark commentary on how the disabled are treated by the abled. An annoying inconvenience that deserves to be mocked, scorned, and eradicated. 😢

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

But if that were true we would see it through HIS "eyes." A blind man just trying to get by and an able person treating him like trash. But this is clearly from her point of view, suggesting the disabled ARE, in fact, an annoying burden

[@alerey4363]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 if you call ANY disability a burden then you're a scumbag; now if you say this particular bastard is a filthy pig, that's right.

[@johnladuke6475]

She feels that her mother is a burden. She can't just kill her mother, but she can give this annoying man on the train a lethal asthma attack.

[@sosogo4real]

@@alerey4363 but they are. They are functionally less capable than their normal peers and as such are less able to care for themselves. They are nothing more than societal burdens and genetic deadweight.

[@poplopong]

@@sosogo4real and we still deserve to live. you know what it's like to constantly read eugenicist takes like this? I hate you more than words can describe. People like you are all too common and prove the original comment's point.

[@lilkris3008]

This reminds me of this story we had for the last version of the high school final exam Texas used to use called taks. In the English part you always have to read a random story then answer questions this one had two stories and both were way incredibly grim. The best was about this lady who loved ducks and this one duck that always nested in her pool I mean two paragraphs about how much she loves this duck and does everything to protect it. Then one day it lays an egg and she decides the only right the to do is make scrambled eggs with this thing the rest of the story is a detailed description of what it tasted and looked like along with this woman becoming completely unhinged. Idk if it’s out there anywhere but the craziest story. In my class after it was over it’s all we could talk about like why did we have to read that. I forgot the bear one but similar a guy loves bears ends up killing lots of bears lol

[@JTA1961]

Beary nice ifn you're quackers...

[@johnladuke6475]

Okay, so the running theme of educational culture that I'm picking up is the worldwide glorification of random murder. Weird.

[@farLander1]

The good 'ol Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills

[@lukewilkinson6556]

This and the short film about the 2 kids drowning in graphic detail scarred me as a kid (leave a comment if you know the name thanks)

[@abandonedaccount123]

the film is named '2 kids drowning in graphic detail that will scar you as a kid'

[@joshuagraham9770]

Lmao another classic shame I forgot the name

[@chlum6295]

It's called an-tAdh, the capital A has a fada

[@criminallyautistic8372]

@@abandonedaccount123 I KNEW I HEARD THAT NAME BEFORE! Thanks bruv!🤣

[@compatriot852]

That Catherine woman is just plain evil. Straight up killing a poor blind man. I wonder what else is taught in Irish schools

[@andymb601]

FINALLY SOMEONE MADE A VIDEO ON THIS. It's on my leaving cert this year and it's just a big meme

[@temporalteleporter2874]

I'm an American and I've now seen this depressing shit before I've seen blade runner. Thanks man.

[@swettyspaghtti]

blade runner isnt that great. i dont get the hype. visually stunning for the time it was mad but meh script

[@TheRealEMURSE]

Blade Runner is a runner up for our pasts suspected predictive programming 🤔🤷

[@shreknskrubgaming7248]

I am also in the same situation now, though I didn't find this to be depressing.

[@fuckboi_killa]

This is probably my fave series that you do. Irish culture's fascinating

[@mollymcgowan7949]

I love that you covered this. I'm an Aussie who came across this short film years ago in a Gaeilge rabbit hole; attempting to learn the language of my own volition. Brendan, as always, gave a stellar performance.

[@727Phoenix]

Maybe it's irrelevant that Cáca Milis doesn't have a point; it's a film that's going to stick around in one's head for a long, long time, popping up whenever one encounters frustrating irritation like this. Maybe _that's_ the whole point?

[@criminallyautistic8372]

So if I'm on a train and someone is annoying me i should check if they're asthmatic? If so, I'm sold, this one ableist woman was being a total shiteeater when I mentioned I was autistic

[@Gordons1888]

This was hard to watch I am thoroughly disturbed Thank you Mr Qxir

[@maximusheaton8375]

My guys clearly had at least 2 puffs of weed judging by that look

[@rojo1193]

First, I just found your channel and I love it, especially the Last Moments. I think the blind man was a substitute for her mother. Caring for her mother all day when she's not working has burdened her, and she sees the blind man as someone else who's burdening her, even for just a few minutes. He's like a stand-in for her mother. There's no connection between the two of them, so when he's found dead on the train with the inhaler just out of grasp, it's just going to look like natural causes with no other person involved. Whereas if her mother died, then there might be some suspicion. So the guy sat down with a woman who basically used him as a stand-in for her mother.

[@fds7476]

The mother-suicide book reminds me a lot of _Tales From The Vienna Woods_ by Ödön von Horvath, which they made us read in German class. The plot is practically the same (there's a mother, there's a bastard baby, there's a lot of moralistic judgement and it ends in death), except instead of 1960s Catholic Ireland, it takes place in 1930s Catholic Austria. Though I suppose it's still more depressing than the other von Horvath novel that we read in class, _Youth Without God,_ which is about Hitler Youths murdering each other in summer camp.

[@frankday1234]

He only needs 1/2 a sachet, but it takes him 4 to get a 1/2 in the cup.

[@makukawakami]

Don't start a conversation with an Irish woman on a train. Got it.

[@hmsrodney6156]

Watching this in an ordinary level class was the only time I've heard a teacher let some one say "what the fuck she killed him"

[@lorentzfactor5118]

The thing that bothers me most about this movie is that the guy doesn't hold the inhaler vapor in for 30 seconds like he's supposed to.

[@gerardacronin334]

Well, that explains the cause of death, then!

[@FriedrichHerschel]

As a teen I would have thought "hey, it's just a few minutes long video, so an easy task". Now, that I've seen it, I'd rather read "War and Peace" - which is an interesting, but sometimes also ... exhaustingly long ... read.

[@daisythegoth7444]

Maybe there is no message and it's just a fantasy. I think we all have a desire to do horrible things to people who slightly annoy us. Or at least I do.

[@JTA1961]

Athefumen ✅

[@davidjohnson5635]

Slightly? This guy is so supremely annoying

[@criminallyautistic8372]

@@JTA1961 What does that mean

[@criminallyautistic8372]

@@davidjohnson5635 So that means we should kill him? Lol

[@keeKeeConnolly]

Thanks for making more Televised Éireann

[@JimBrodie]

Sounds like when i was in high school English, some kids were pissed off we had to study Of Mice and Men, while another class did To Kill a Mockingbird. I didn't give a shit as it meant seeing Sherilyn Fenn turboflirt like Twin Peaks when the teacher eventually got round to bunging on the film.

[@mattmarzula]

That clip of the Wolfetones in The Pogues singing "The Irish Rover" or at least lip syncing it on Irish television was classic.

[@alphapennsylvania9439]

The dubliners and Pogues.

[@ridanann]

Sinead O'Connor and Annie Lennox lol sorry for reference I'm just taking of them mistaking the singer too a meta-level although maybe Bjork and Yoko Ono would be an even funnier I don't know the Wolfe Tones and The Pogues would be a beautiful combination though

[@alphapennsylvania9439]

@@ridanann there is a video called "tribute to Ronnie Drew " with Bono, Sinead O'Connor, kíla, rest of the dubliners and band of bowisys. And Pogues It's a bloody tragedy

[@apersononlineyes6554]

I'm pretty sure it was the dubliners and the pogues....

[@ridanann]

@@alphapennsylvania9439 been awhile since I saw that wasn't exactly of the song I can see what they were going for but tragic figures make good song good figures make tragic songs lol

[@CairnsG]

“Cáca milis” means cake In Irish? In Scottish Gaelic it’s “ceic”

[@nedlooby7419]

depends where in the country you are some say cáca some say císte some say ceic and some say calc, cáca mílis is a sweet cake

[@nedlooby7419]

depends where in the country you are some say cáca some say císte some say ceic and some say calc, cáca mílis is a sweet cake

[@lianefehrle9921]

Well lovey that was a great short film. In the south of America there would never have had this on our list in school. Thanks

[@thomaswhiteley6368]

Hahah thanks to you Qxir I am now one of those people, Never been to Ireland, Never Seen Blade Runner, Seen Cáca Milis. Thank you so much for all the amazing content!! :)

[@JTA1961]

Athefumen ✅

[@criminallyautistic8372]

Unless you're subbed to Diamanda Hagan. Bladerunner is a terrible film.

[@mbgrafix]

I fully expected him to hurl all over her when she lied to him about the worm...turning this into a strange morality tale. However...in the end...like you, I did not get the point.

[@poplopong]

the film shows how innate hatred for the disabled, stemming from one's own fear of death and disability, can go so far as to drive someone to kill. A bit of an extreme example of ableism, but the sentiment she displays is one that disabled people see all too often. Scroll down in these comments and you'll see people saying we're all social burdens, genetic deadweight, useless, already dead, etc. Eugenics never went away, and its integrated into the ways we fundamentally view disability and illness.

[@paul756uk2]

@@poplopong indeed you're right. Eugenics never went away but it has never been so much in the forefront and active as it has been in the last couple of years.

[@ADBBuild]

From now on, everytime I meet a new person, I'm just going to ask "Cáca mílis?"

[@beybladesinmyheels1267]

I enjoyed the film, thank you for sharing

[@PatRiot-]

Yesss 10 minutes off from work and a qxir vid. Life is good 👍

[@HarrySparshott]

Ello, I asked my Irish physics teacher today if he was secretly you because you look identical and sound the same. He wasn’t you but put one of your videos on in class

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Thats exactly what Qxir wants you to believe

[@HarrySparshott]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 😳😳

[@pandap4ntz]

I love your videos, this one was especially great. I'm digging the Televised Éireann series, it's cool to learn about all the zany, whacky & less heard-of stuff from other cultures... highly entertaining.

[@althea7210]

This is insane 🤣 All your videos are awesome, so funny! On another note… you look so much more grown up than when you first started the channel… time flies!

[@suzannax]

We studied Seamus Heaney poetry. Can confirm that Irish stuff is super depressing

[@jamesjanson6129]

Try reading and studying Peig...You'll be looking for a clothesline and a sturdy tree branch in no time...

[@emlix1]

Try having a history as morbid, repressive and religiously fucked up as Ireland's and you'd hardly blame them.

[@joelryan2141]

Heaney's hardly depressing like

[@sandroetci6343]

As a German this is just my daily commute in the Deutsche Bahn

[@youxkio]

Qxir, you became more mature lately. Good to listen to you giving a nice argumentative criticism about literature. You go beyond of what is taught. Thank you.

[@colepeterson5392]

Still the best channel on KZbin!

[@seagull2786]

I often wake up in a cold sweat saying to myself " Níl aon péist sa càca milís Paul"

[@siaa7078]

i can relate to that, sometimes i picture something horrible like this when the person in mind is annoying me ps: as a foreigner can confirm i haven't seen bladerunner

[@vincentguttmann2231]

I feel like there is a morbid fascination with this. Like, I wouldn't do it myself, but the whole setting is so *strange* yet so familiar that there's something deeply interesting about it.

[@joshuagauthier_]

I fw with the long hair, and content is balling. You’re doing great keep up the good work :)

[@brandycarter9829]

Thanks a lot, Qxir. That was, quite possibly, the most horrifically disturbing thing I’ve ever seen. Yikes.

[@Super11bigT]

Glad to see this series is brought back from the dead

[@yommmrr]

I'm gonna start saying caca melis to my Irish friends here in Australia.

[@MetalMonkey]

Brendan Gleeson was an Irish and Geography teacher at my secondary school (Belcamp College). He taught my 2 older brothers but he left to become an actor after my 1st year

[@GabrielMisfire]

Holy shit, I have actually just seen Cáca milis before Blade Runner. That'll teach me to procrastinate watching the classics, some cinephile I am. Thanks for the introspection into a weird side of Irish contemporary culture tho!

[@twat3789]

Just watched this infamous piece for the first time in leaving cert Irish a couple days ago, this is disturbingly good timing

[@JTA1961]

Keeping you on track

[@thexen3120]

Brendan Gleeson is such an amazing actor. They all must have had so many funny outtakes doing this Lol Wish I could see them.

[@deandupont5503]

In Berkeley CA, the dude would be a city council member. His behavior and temperament are perfect for the job.

[@dondada3244]

Loving the new look😉

[@elen5871]

this explains so much about some people I know... some ppl I am about to try to impress with my caca milis references! honestly tho, as someone who's long enjoyed the weirder side of Irish culture vicariously through some internet friends I've had for. god. 20 years now, this is such a great series. keep it up!

[@SlimTheydy]

I saw the thumbnail and clicked so quickly, gods Caca milis fucked us ALL up.

[@SlimTheydy]

I am glad how our entire class all came together to agree that Catherine was a straight up b*tch tho and that "being annoying" doesn't justify emotional torture and murder

[@Commander-McBragg]

That will teach him to be annoying. Well done, lady!

[@SamStPeter]

wow that was so strange thank you for covering this lol

[@thirstyraccoon]

I watched this in school in Irish class and my class lost its shit

[@dougsaunders8109]

I am 50 and have never seen blade runner. Why did not fancy it, so I fit into yes seen weird Irish film before blade runner

[@joshuasmyth3115]

Being Irish and using busses and trains often, he broke every fucking rule in the book

[@RedHeadForester]

Dude if I could hit that subscribe button a second time, I would. This channel just keeps pumping out quality content!

[@theglitchedmissile9239]

This short commercial feels much longer than any other commercial I've ever seen

[@michaelwalsh6276]

its a short film, not a commercial

[@micchar578]

@@michaelwalsh6276 what would this be advertising, British rail? Inhalers? Cake? maybe guide dogs lol

[@milbruh6671]

14:38, yeah I remember studying a short audio book called "dadeo" (grandfather) and it was all about this grandpa who tries to kidnap this kid who is escaping from his abusive father, don't know why our studies are very dark lol

[@wildman510]

This feels entirely like a 2009 KZbin animation that you get suggested ten years later

[@SethSmucker]

I always saw this video in my suggested videos but I never ended up clicking on it til today. This shit was so fun to watch dude, it’s a great departure from your other style of videos. I’d love seeing more like this from time to time. Maybe with a bit bore clickbait so I watch it sooner 😉

[@ThatSmashGuy]

Omg we're literally doing this in class rn it's so painful to watch