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Based on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest
by sph 4y ago
Based on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/
Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.
- lopatin 4y ago[flagged]
- messe 4y agoUmm... the two terms are synonymous to me. What distinction are you drawing?
- craftyguy98 4y ago[flagged]
- esrauch 4y agoThere's another genre also commonly called Black Comedy where Black is African American not Dark. To be fair, it is genuinely confusing to have that genre name collision.
- messe 4y ago> There's another genre also commonly called Black Comedy where Black is African American not Dark. Ah, well, that would explain it. I'm not American. I have never before now heard the term "black comedy" refer to comedy solely by African Americans.
- itisit 4y agoThat’s not true in colloquial American English. Movies like “Friday” or “Madea Goes to Jail” are just referred to as “Comedy”.
- messe 4y agoThat doesn't contradict the person you're replying to
- sph 4y agoBlack comedy has always been used to refer to a certain type of dark humour. You need more than a few "Twitter critics on a righteous circlejerk" to change its meaning.
- esrauch 4y agoMy context isn't Twitter but like Airline in-flight movie catalogs which had "Black Comedies" and it was movies with all-black casts rather than what I expected.
- prepend 4y agoI’ve never heard “Black Comedy” used to describe comedies by black filmmakers. However, I have heard name collisions with “Black Arts.” My city hosts an annual event called the “Black Arts Festival” and when I first saw the banners around town, I was confused. I learned the true purpose and have always wondered if some evil wizards mistakenly attend.
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- itisit 4y ago“Black Comedy” is synonymous with “Dark Comedy”.
- Quarrel 4y agoLike, seriously, most of us call it Black Comedy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
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- flappyeagle 4y agoIt was hilarious. My theater laughed out loud multiple times. Did you watch it on streaming?
- snozolli 4y agoIt was brilliantly written and had a lot of laugh out loud moments, but it wasn't a comedy. It was extremely dark, just like the awful civil war that it was a metaphor for. The melancholy, loneliness, and utterly pointless violence far outweighed the occasional laugh.
- cubefox 4y agoReminds me of "The Lobster". A number of reviewers called it funny and a black comedy. I seriously wondered whether we watched the same movie.
- jonny_eh 4y agoSo it was sometimes very funny, but was also sometimes very dark. Let's call it a… black comedy.
- snozolli 4y agoMore like it was almost relentlessly melancholy, peppered with some horrific violence, agonizing conflict, and the occasional brilliantly written, darkly funny moments. Humor was honestly a tiny fraction of the total time. You can call it whatever you want, but I'm certainly not going to recommend it to friends as a black comedy. That's a surefire way to set them up for disappointment.
- samirillian 4y ago> it is not a funny movie Agree to disagree. I found it funny. Just try describing it to someone, and the premise is actually hilarious. But yes, dark, and heartbreaking in certain scenes. Great film.
- jiggliemon 4y agoIt was funny.
- silisili 4y agoAgreed. Seems to really depend on the person. It came highly recommended to me by a family member, describing it as good and funny. I found it absolutely not funny, very strange, and didn't like any of it one bit. Shame, because I really like most of what both leads do.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoCompletely agree. I kept asking myself "why does this movie exist and why am I watching it?" I'd rather cut off a finger than watch it again. And making that joke was the only time I've laughed about that awful movie.
- sph 4y ago> "why does this movie exist?" "What is art?" I started to enjoy film more when I understood that the best directors are just telling a story and not don't care if you like it or not. Of course you are free to hate it. The same applies to any form of art. If you want a movies easy to enjoy, there's the superhero blockbuster movies and Star Wars, I guess.
- silisili 4y agoI mean, you're not wrong, but the truth is, anyone can tell a story. I hear tons from drunks at bars and homeless folks in my city. What makes a director/story writer so exalted as to have better stories? The best movies, IMO, are those that can tell a story while drawing the audience in. Whether through comedy, sadness, shock, etc. This movie was just a person telling a very weird story. Taken at pure face value, and ignoring the actors' talent, it sounds more like a story a random drunk person on a bus would tell. I understand art is completely subjective, so I'm in no place to say you're wrong. But it's kinda dismissive to tell someone who hated it to watch superhero movies. Now -those- really shouldn't be made.
- theironhammer 4y agoIt's set during the Irish Civil War. Someone else in this thread posted a Wikipedia link to an article about this war. If you read some of that you'll begin to understand what the film is about.
- sdwr 4y agoHaven't seen it, but I absolutely love colin farrell in everything. In Bruges, 7 Psychopaths, The Other Guys (?) He has that hangdog, depressed and confused thing going on that's so charming.
- lkschubert8 4y agoHonestly that is a good way to describe a lot of the works by McDonagh.
- siquick 4y agoOne of the best directors out there. Just wish he had more to watch.
- sph 4y agoYeah after writing my comment I learned he was the mastermind behind In Bruges, which I loved, and Seven Psychopaths, which I forgot about but I remember enjoying its quirkiness.
- lkschubert8 4y agoYou can give his plays a whirl if you weren't aware of their existence.
- webkike 4y agoIt was a hilarious movie. It just also happened to be quite sad
- imiric 4y agoAbsolutely loved the film. The acting and directing is superb. Colin Farrell's and Kerry Condon's performances are incredible, but Barry Keoghan steals the show. This is one of my favorite scenes in recent memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIsqYO9l8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIsqYO9l8w
- xeromal 4y agoIf I'm being honest, I have no idea what's going on in this scene.
- fsckboy 4y agoas a quick vignette of life at one of the stops of the short bus, sure; but as it relates to the rest of the movie and why is it in there, I agree with you.
- MikeOfAu 4y agoFor me, it was the proposal scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6oF9OpmjGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6oF9OpmjGw What acting.
- imiric 4y agoOh, yeah, genius. And heartbreaking :'(
- messe 4y agoThat scene is heartbreaking to watch. Keoghan deserved the academy award for best supporting actor this year IMO (as for best screenplay, while I think Banshee's should've gotten it, it was pretty close and EEAAO would've been my second choice anyway),
- throwawaylinux 4y agoIs it supposed to be a caricature of a mentally disabled person? What is great about that acting? Not being rhetorical here, I'm not a person of high culture.
- kiernanmcgowan 4y agoIts a truly incredible film, but has a few subtleties that may be hard to catch at first glance. Pay attention to the colors that people are wearing (green, orange, red, and blue) for the deeper subtext of relationships of the political situation in Ireland. I may be missing a detail or two, and would happily be corrected, but for the curious: - Green = Catholics / IRA supporters - Yellow/Orange = Protestants - Red = English - Blues = Anglo-Irish Treaty supporters (?) edit: formatting
- messe 4y agoInteresting, I'm going to have to rewatch and see if that's the case.
- fsckboy 4y agodo you know this definitively? was it in the book? I'm asking because I picked up a hitchhiker way back when that was an ordinary thing to do, and he was a vocational school grad, but told me this whole thing about how the Wizard of Oz was a parable about the gold standard (follow the yellow bricks to the Emerald City) vs greenback dollar, with the cowardly lion (Dept of Defence) and the Tin Man (midwest industrial might) and Scarecrow (agriculture), pitting the witches of the North and South and East and West... you get the picture. It's a very tight theory, and I was shocked I hadn't learned this in my college track/college career. and I believed it for the next decades till I found out: it wasn't true. So I ask you again, is this something you know you know? I only have time left to believe one new thing and I need to be sure of it
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- throw0101b 4y agoFor the curious: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_T...
- kiernanmcgowan 4y ago> do you know this definitively? was it in the book? I can't really speak to this, which is why I have a (?) around the meaning of Blue. I can say that green, orange, and red have pretty obvious connections, especially given the context of the film taking place during the Irish Civil War, which directly followed the Irish War of Independence (from England, who wore red in battle). If it helps assuage your fear, you can take a look at the meaning of the colors of the Irish flag to see context for green and orange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ireland#Symbolism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ireland#Symbolism
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoIs there a mood one should be in to watch it? (Or a mood it leaves you in.)
- Sebguer 4y agoIt will leave you sad and a bit forlorn, likely.
- Jalad 4y agoAnd if you liked this movie you might like "In Bruges". Very similar in mood and the same two lead actors (and director). Personally I liked In Bruges a bit more but they're both good
- dreamcompiler 4y agoCouldn't disagree more. In Bruges is a wonderful black comedy. Banshees is not even remotely similar in story or mood; the two actors play entirely different characters.
- bibabaloo 4y agoWell, I couldn't disagree more with this. :) Both are wonderful Black comedies, imo. I agree that the story and characters are different (but that's to be expected given they are different movies after all) but the mood is similar between the two. I'll concede that Banshees is darker than Bruges, though.
- bennysonething 4y agoI loved it, thought it was hilarious. Though to be fair I'm from Ireland, and I can see that the comedy might not translate well much further a field than Ireland or the UK.
- prepend 4y agoI enjoyed this movie and can’t place what about it stuck with me. I’ll be hit randomly in my day with recollections from the film and chuckle or even burst out laughing. More so than In Bruges or 3Billboards. “That’s the same way my mammy died.” And “I’m here for the opposite of that. What’s the opposite of licks? I don’t know.” And “It takes two to tango. I don’t want to dance. You were dancing with your dog.”
- bartislartfast 4y agoI didn't like it that much. It was ok but I think it's been hyped out of all proportion. Gleeson and Farrell are good actors, but for me the script let them down. It felt like it was trying too hard to be meaningful or symbolic but nothing landed. Barry Keoghan was the best thing about it, amazing performance.
- foogazi 4y agohad to stop watching half-way, didn’t land anything for me. Surprised it got that much hype