Sam [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Honestly the impression I got from the movie was that the intention behind it was so ambigious that it amounted to a very-intelligent “really makes ya think, huh?”. I think your interpretation is the one McDonagh was aiming for but for all his strength in writing characters he has the slight flaw of being incapable of making a fucking point in anything he writes.

    I liked the final scene though, it (unintentionally) captures something that most stories around the civil war fail to capture which is that the fundemental tensions that caused it were never addressed. Even if you ignore the class tensions that went unresolved in the bourgeois revolution that occured in 1920 (why not, everyone else does). The fundamental goal of national independence was left (and still is) incomplete. The Republic has always been very eager to wash its hands of the direct role it played in causing the Troubles. Irish history tends to end with the civil war and then pretend that the civil rights movement that kicked off the Troubles was solely the fault of colonial forces and not the Irish bourgeoisie selling the North so they could turn around and eliminate what remained of the Irish left. So even though there is no way McDonagh actually thought about any of this when writing it, I find the final scene’s affirmation that the violence will continue to be an anachronistic nod to the legacy of the civil war. The fighting started again with the Troubles, and it will probably start anew with reunification.

    McDonagh makes fun movies and boring plays, but I find them often of little substance.

    Still love the car movie though.




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