I love both actors. If you want to see Colin and Brendan at their best when acting together, then In Bruges is a masterpiece.
These two are great stand-alone and, for my taste, superb working together. This film has it all. Stunning scenery with superb cinematography. Martins's directing gives us atmosphere and a brooding sense of the lonely but intense whilst still belonging feeling of living in a small community.
Historically it is also superb; even the film's title is clever and apt. Boy, this should have been a 10/10 for me all day long. It kicks off well; we are confused yet want to learn why Colm dislikes his friend. Did he discover that Padraic was having sex with his sister since the way they live together, and often historically, that would have been wrong enough? Perhaps Colm secretly loves the sister in the mix at the same time too? Or perhaps it was because Colm has to leave to fight in the war and / or has a secret that he needs to keep from Padraic?
I sat with baited breathe.
Then discovered no. He decides that his mate is just boring. Then to make his point his cuts his fingers off one at a time and then his mate gets pissed off and tries to kill him, we think, by burning down his house. Now I may have that bit wrong because I switched off after the first finger was chopped off.
I mean what the heck was that all about? The film just becomes the worst two things possible, horrible dark and horrible boring.
I poured myself an Irish whiskey and sang Molly Malone and went off to watch something that didn't both break my heart and leave me wanting to sit in the dark depressed.
Martin please come back with something better for us. Please.
These two are great stand-alone and, for my taste, superb working together. This film has it all. Stunning scenery with superb cinematography. Martins's directing gives us atmosphere and a brooding sense of the lonely but intense whilst still belonging feeling of living in a small community.
Historically it is also superb; even the film's title is clever and apt. Boy, this should have been a 10/10 for me all day long. It kicks off well; we are confused yet want to learn why Colm dislikes his friend. Did he discover that Padraic was having sex with his sister since the way they live together, and often historically, that would have been wrong enough? Perhaps Colm secretly loves the sister in the mix at the same time too? Or perhaps it was because Colm has to leave to fight in the war and / or has a secret that he needs to keep from Padraic?
I sat with baited breathe.
Then discovered no. He decides that his mate is just boring. Then to make his point his cuts his fingers off one at a time and then his mate gets pissed off and tries to kill him, we think, by burning down his house. Now I may have that bit wrong because I switched off after the first finger was chopped off.
I mean what the heck was that all about? The film just becomes the worst two things possible, horrible dark and horrible boring.
I poured myself an Irish whiskey and sang Molly Malone and went off to watch something that didn't both break my heart and leave me wanting to sit in the dark depressed.
Martin please come back with something better for us. Please.
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