The Cinéprism
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🎬 The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Streaming: HotStar
"Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say." - Carl Jung
My interpretation below..
The Banshees of Inisherin is homage to the Irish Civil War how neighbors turned enemies and this backdrop is used as a metaphor for the conflict between Colm and Padraic.
Padraic is the archetype of a person living a happy life until war waged upon him destroys everything.
Padraic represents the feeling of wanting things to go back to how they were before a huge event in life occurs much like the war did to Ireland, only to inevitably accept the fact that there's no way to go back to how things were after all that had been done.
The tragedy is that Colm and his existential crisis destroyed Padraic and made him like himself. A resentful man. The loss of Siobhán and jenny would probably been hard but not as hard if he had the friend still.
There was beauty in Padraic's existence and now it's all gone.
For how simple the story line is it truly encapsulates so many different working themes and truths about life. Such a beautiful work of art this film is.
Martin McDonagh 👑
This is what cinema truly is.
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