Why The Banshees of Inisherin is the Best Movie of 2022

This movie hits like a bread van.

I think him cutting his own fingers off was a way to blame someone else for the failure he was scared of coming regardless of his own efforts and talent.

The friendship is basically the Partition of Ireland played out on a personal level. The date of 1st April was the date when the hard border was erected between Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland. Colm cutting off his fingers is illustrative of how family and friends were separated and how Ireland had to sacrifice 6 counties for peace. . Siobhán leaving for the mainland is reminiscent of people's exodus from Ireland. Pádraic holding the grudge even though Colm wants to say it's over is like The Friday Agreement keeping Ireland separate. There are more parallels in the film which fit

Why isn'y anybody talking about Jennie? She steals every single scene she's in!

I saw it last night. It's a masterpiece. A quietly moving, devastatingly depressing, beautiful masterpiece. Proof to Hollywood that all you need to make an excellent film is a good script, superb actors, excellent direction and then for taste some poignant music and somewhat spooky atmosphere and you have this shinning diamond of a film.

According to what I've heard in my family, it was expected in this period for an Irish sister (especially the youngest sister) to remain unmarried to take care of any unmarried brothers. On her deathbed (in the 1950s) my Irish grandmother gave my Irish American mother permission not to follow this custom. The video implies that Siobhan took care of her brother out of love, but it was also obligation that she had to overcome to liberate herself.

as an irish person it is 100% a commentary on our social culture

For me, a key insight of the movie was about "purity" and "downfall". Both Padraic and Dominic were "pure" in the sense that they were innocent (nice, dull). This reflected by their affinity for animals, which are also pure. But when each is confronted with rejection, they take very different paths. Padraic becomes dark and mean, but Dominic chooses to escape life rather than become dark. For whatever reason, this aspect of the movie hit me hard. There were so many scenes related to animals in the house - and this for me was always a reminder of the purity of animals.

I don’t have a particular line or scene to cite (the entire script was quotable), but I did want to point out that Colin Farrell’s little face expressions throughout the film are brilliant. What an amazing actor. He says so much with his face, without using words, and I REALLY noticed it in this film. Also, I thought you might mention that this is the first time (I believe) that C. Farrell and B. Keoghan have shared the screen since Killing Of A Sacred Deer. I thought the chemistry between the two of them was incredible in that film as well. I’m hoping we see them paired up again down the road.

On the same day I watched this film, my boyfriend said he didn't love me anymore. He simply continued being happy, but I wasn't part of his happiness anymore. "But you loved me yesterday ?" The incomprehension, denial, distress, anger, despair, resignation. You start questioning who you are. All the emotions I went through were so beautifully depicted in the film, with great accuracy. It truly blew me away.

This is one of the most powerful, beautiful, gut-wrenchingly sad movies I have ever seen. It was so painful I almost couldn't finish it, but I came back to it the next day after I had calmed down. I can't stop thinking about it. My heart bled for everyone's pain and inability to do any healing of these relationships on any level.

honestly the most heartbreaking scene for me was when Dominic realizes Pad isn't that nice. He said himself, he thought Pad was the best of them. It's like Dominic was disillusioned in that moment. Sad to think that was probably his last interaction with someone before he died. The scene where Siobhan rejects him was ok. Yeah he was really let down then too, but he said himself he never expected it to happen. He just wanted to get it out and had hope. The only interacts they've had is of Siobhan being weirded out or creeped out by him so it's not like the audience expects them to get together anyways

I watched "In Bruge" for the first time the other day and was blown away how good it was the same night I kept the train rolling and immediately watched this movie afterwards and it was such a joyfull night of cinema that I have not experienced in too long.

It's so sad it won't be given it's proper recognition, I just finished it and I feel like I've been hit by an existential train and I absolutely love it

I thought the first scene in the confessional booth was hilarious. The rejection of Dominic at the end was truly heart breaking.

I couldn’t understand why people dislike this film. I thought it was marvellous and beautiful.

An absolute gem of a movie. The cinematography is breathtaking, the cast and acting is simply brilliant, the Westcoast of Ireland feels like an extra character but the story is so, so sad and left me heavily depressed..

Also the religious reference of the virgin Mary statue which divides the 2 roads between the Padraic and Colm is an allegory for the civil war. It's a split of the 2 sides of the conflict both based on the same religious figure.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this film ever since I saw it. I have watched and re-watched the reviews on YouTube and, like you, I can’t wait to see it again. Everything about the film is superb - the story, the setting, the superlative portrayals. It was certainly the best and most moving film I saw in 2022 and it deserves all the award nominations that have already been made.

Having just seen the movie, I have some observations. Taking place in 1923, the locations are starkly beautiful. The narrator of this video deftly covers some of the finer points of the film. ( The allusion to the Civil War mirrored by the characters.) The sparse but piercing script was delightfully poignant. When Pádraic came around the corner of his house, I thought he would see Colm lying there. It was heartbreaking to see it was Jenny. The scene with Dominic and Siobhán was quietly shattering. When he softly says, " Well, there goes that dream. " it's crippling. A movie with many facets, it lingers long after viewing.