The Banshees of Inisherin portrays Irish people as ‘moronic’ and is ‘extremely offensive’, says complaint to film classification board
The Banshees of Inisherin portrays Irish people as ‘moronic’ and is ‘extremely offensive’, says complaint to film classification board
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Many rural people from that era would have been undereducated and indeed quite simple. You’d still see remnants of it today.
It portrays *some* Irish people as moronic.
Some Irish people are moronic.
God this film has alot of people frothing at the mouth. I personally really enjoyed it. I had the misfortune of listening to mid-west radio over the weekend though, and the presenter gave a good hour giving out about it saying ‘that would never ever happen’ – so obviously not a man to look for any deeper meaning to something, and the gobshite multitudes ringing in to him to say it was disturbing, horrific and the worst film they’d ever seen. They’ve obviously not seen much then.
Today’s faux outrage.
Complainant is half the people on this sub
I grew up in the West Of Ireland (rural Mayo) in the 1990s to mid-2000s. There is nothing unrealistic about the portrayal of rural Irish people in the Banshees of Inisherin.
All of the people from the area, especially older people or those who worked only in farming their whole lives were simple people. They barely finished primary school and then farming and the local area became their whole world and they wanted for nothing else but the farm and a pint of porter at the weekend. Couldn’t call them stupid people, but they definitely lived a simple existence.
Rural Mayo isn’t like that now though. Once computers, phones and then smart phones became a thing things changes. And most of the millennial children of those farmers went to college and their gen Z kids and grandkids live a much more online existence.
But I knew old lads as a kid and teenager who were carbon copies of Padraic and Colm. People who would literally talk about the contents of their donkey’s shite.
Use of the word moronic shows the prejudices of the person making the complaint.
There’s no scientific proof of banshees either.
The same was said about fr Ted.
The movie looks great and acted superbly but it’s an adapted play thick as porridge with metaphors so it can be a tough watch for many.
Like, I can imagine people seeing all the online hype then watching it and be 🫤
There was similar outrage when Playboy of the Western World first came out (though that is just a terrible play for its plot and characters)
Surely all the Irish actors in the film and their academy award nominations would suggest that the Irish are actually quite adept at abstract concepts in art.
I didn’t love it, but it seems like most of the complaints missed the central plot, which is basically that living a very isolated, simple life can be very hard to take if you have a complicated mind. It drove the sister away, and it drove the friend to (arguably) madness, but if you had a genuinely simple mind like the central character, you can be perfectly content with very little by way of entertainment/conversation. Also, that having a simple existence is hard to take but it’s not morally inferior to being a contrary, complicated beast.
It’s called a satire ffs
This is getting worse than Enoch.
I enjoyed it myself but it’s definitely been overrated af.
Someone’s offended – run for cover!
Accurate.
I’m French, I didn’t read it as portraying Irish people as moronic, I read it as portraying rural people on an island that have very little to distract themselves and are basically bored to death, its story could happen in every part of the world.
Its a film designed for the oscars to be fair. It’s got everything the yanks want to see in a movie about ireland. A pub, trad music, a donkey, cottages, an elderly lass in a shawl. That said beautifully shot, great performances. Give me in In Bruges any day.
Where are all these spoiled culture insecure moan bags coming from these days?