{"id":250688,"date":"2025-07-09T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250688\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:03:14","slug":"suit-hung-tied-tongue-review-rabble-rousing-revenge-drama-takes-aim-at-the-1-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250688\/","title":{"rendered":"Suit Hung. Tied Tongue review \u2013 rabble-rousing revenge drama takes aim at the 1% | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luigi Mangione<\/a> and widespread wrath with the 1% are what this deft and formally ambitious Irish film instantly brings to mind. In using the mockumentary form to recount the radicalisation and eventual crimes of brothers Se\u00e1n and Freddie Halpin (Paul St Leger and Alex Eydt), it creates haunting intrigue about their motives, and further layers on a lyrical indignation that strongly marks out Sau Dachi\u2019s debut feature.<\/p>\n

Interviews with lovers, friends, colleagues and the authorities who later intervened, as well as faux archive footage, chronicle the dark descent of the fusional Halpin siblings; on the surface they are bright and artistically gifted jack-the-lads, deeper down traumatised by the loss of their mother to botched cervical cancer treatment. S\u00e9an, in particular, internalises this as a consequence of capitalism\u2019s disregard for the little people \u2013 and focuses his ire on politician Paul Keogh (William Morgan), the brave-new-world-proselytising Minister for Change and Reform.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Dachi\u2019s refracted technique contributes to an almost claustrophobic sense of characterisation \u2013 not just of the Halpins, but also those who end up on their receiving end. But, as the brothers don animal masks and begin issuing threatening manifestos on YouTube, the film\u2019s polemic and dramatic strands start to interfere with each other. Giving Freddie free rein to rouse the masses with fusillades of free verse, Dachi is clearly as indignant as the protagonists about modern society\u2019s failings. But he also tries to use the mock interviews to question the Halpins\u2019 sense of certainty: are they folk heroes, or blinkered bedroom revolutionaries high on their own supply?<\/p>\n

These cross-currents mean Suit Hung. Tied Tongue labours somewhat for resolution and clarity in its closing stages \u2013 and perhaps hedges its bets on the salient issue, whether revolutionary violence is ever justified. But communicating its anger with potent rhetoric, it\u2019s the kind of engaged grassroots film-making that we need more than ever.<\/p>\n

Suit Hung. Tied Tongue is on Eiretainment now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione and widespread wrath with the 1% are what this deft and formally ambitious Irish film instantly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114823181367567360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}