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Chapters
00:00 More One of Life's Good Guys
02:11 1: Is PĂĄdraic Actually Nice?
04:23 2: What are the Banshees?
06:28 3: Whoâs Side is SiobhĂĄn Really On?
08:29 4: Does Colm want PĂĄdraic to be mean?
13:36 Art Can be Nice Too
15:13 5. Is This Just A Tragedy?
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Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Feb 23, 2023 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Suddenly realizing that there's something to the fact that they are on an island, disconnected from the tragedies unfolding on the mainland. (refusing to acknowledge pain.) But then SiobhĂĄn, by leaving the island, chooses to confront that darkness, and face it head on... thereby freeing herself? Is that anything??
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One of the bits of dialogue that really stuck with me from the movie for some reason:
Priest: "Do you think god gives a shite about miniature donkeys?"
Colm: "I fear he doesn't. I fear that's where we've all gone wrong."
I think there is a question in there about what "niceness" even is, and how our perception of being a "nice, good person" may be fundamentally flawed.
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What stuck with me was how illogical and self-destructive Colm's reaction to Padraic continuing to reach out was: the reason why he cut contact was to focus on his violin music, yet he cuts off his own fingers to scare Padraic off, thereby denying himself his last wish to be a musician. Kinda fits with the civil war analogy, I guess, where people fighting their kin just end up hurting themselves in the process
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I feel Colm is ready to embrace his friendship at the end because he no longer has the means for greatness. He wanted to cut off his fingers so that he wouldn't have the burden of being great and could get back to enjoying the smaller things in life. He placed the burden on Padraic because he didn't want to admit that to himself. This film has SO much to talk about. Beautiful video as always.
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The real banshees were the friends we made along the way.
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Hearing Thomas go between his usual American accent and then pronouncing PĂĄdraic like a proper Irish countryman is making me giggle hehe
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The most painful part of the film is when Barry Keoghan goes up to Siobhan and asks if she could ever see herself with him, and she says no, and he replies, okay, I'm just going to go and do that other thing I came to do here. Then leaves. It hurt. Because I always thought that his character was the most enlightened person on the island seeing everything as it really was and realizing, sadly, that he couldn't survive it.
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Colmâs ultimatum is so insane that it clouds my whole perception of the movie. What was he asking for? You could summarise his ultimatum as âstop talking to me and let me follow my dreams, or I will ruin my dreamsâ. Now, if PĂĄdraic cares a lot for his friend it is natural to expect he wishes no harm to him, but what Colm asked was for PĂĄdraic to take that exact care for him and do nothing with it. It is such a puzzling ask to expect someone to love you enough to wish you the best but not to interact with you again. It runs completely counter to what people do when they like someone. It feels like he knew the ultimatum was going to be ignored and just found an excuse to make PĂĄdraic as miserable as he is. All of Colmâs suffering in the film is self-inflicted.
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The way Barry Keoghan goes "nice!" is just so,,,,GAH, it's so well-done.
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Woof.. the way you explained how humans ignore/downplay/justify negative emotions and pain with your own recent experience of pain is magical. We all like to think we're kind, empathetic and caring but if we can't handle/accept our own pain or share it safely, how can we be there for others in any real way. It isn't something I was expecting and was a perfect segway out of the Banshee sometimes representing the way each character deals with their pain.
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i think the characters clothing has a lot to do with this emotional hiding. Always wearing layers where the colors seem to be underneath. Siobhan finally wearing yellow on the outside at the end. It doesn't always work like the color green on the outside but yellow red and blue seem to clearly play into dispair/pain, hope, and loneliness.
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This is the most meaningful analysis so far. My initial takeaway was "this movie gets it - we humans desperately want to meet each other's expectations, but we're embarrassingly inadequate when it comes to supporting one another when we fall short". Still, every possible interpretation - be it "the futility of civil war", "banshees as a scapegoat for the fear of death", "Colm turns into a teenage musician in his midlife crisis", or even "you, the audience, just sit back and watch with amusement at this dark comedy, like the titular banshees" - seems to exist simultaneously in a weird superposition. I can't stop thinking about this movie.
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I think I'm the kind of person that "gets" movies and their subtext and deeper meanings.. then I watch one of your videos and I feel like a clapping seal.
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"Do you think God gives damn about miniature donkeys, Colm?"
"I fear he doesnt... and I fear that's where it's all gone wrong."
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I think Colm has suddenly become very aware of his mortality and wants to do something he deems to be more fulfilling and worthwhile. But then, as you suggest, he also somehow realizes that his cultivation of music and poetry are fruitless ways to fend off the inevitable. This ties into greater appreciation with Padraic when the latter becomes passionate about something. Coln has been needing a jolt of passion in his life and which helps explain his self-maiming.
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I'd like to add: there is also the theme of mortality, legacy, and whay makes someone's life valuable. And the two men present two amtithetical positions. It is in the conflict scene in which both are kind of yelling at each other. Colm feels being nice is of no value, life is meaningful only if one does something monumental and lasting like Mozart, Beethoven, whose work remains for ages after their death. He says that no one remembers who was nice, they remember the music (a stand in for any work of note, and also glory). And Padraic says that I remember who was nice, and then he talks about his sister. So essentially Padraic finds value in life in the here and now, within the personal sphere. Collum looks for value in life in some form of existence beyond death - that is essentially what glory is. A man viewing his approaching mortality seeking to create something great that'll last for ages is essentially trying to overcome mortality. Trying to create a legacy is trying to ensure existence in some form beyond death.
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Great movie and interesting video. I do think that Banshees is not a particularly deep movie - it wears almost all of it's themes on it's sleeve - but that doesn't make it any less harrowing. One thing I was surprised you didn't get into was PĂĄdraic's devastating realization that the 'village idiot', Dominic, was actually smarter and more interesting than him. As much as the movie targets male friendship, loneliness, sadness, pain, it is doing it from a lens of the idea that "the unexamined life is not worth living." One of Colm's major reasons for the break-up is that PĂĄdraic is just so damn dull. Colm is trying to change something in his life, breath something into it - who knows why the last decade(s) he's been fine to go to the pub every night with his friend and have the same conversations over and over, but something changed and that just wasn't enough for him anymore. He woke up and looked at his life and no longer denied he was unhappy with it. That's terrifying. Most people do not want to do that because it can ruin whatever happiness you've cobbled together to stay sane. PĂĄdraic had an orderly universe and was happy - perhaps he, like I think a lot of people do, unconsciously realized that if he poked at that life, it would unravel in terrible ways. And I can't blame people for not necessarily wanting to look too deeply at their own lives if all it will bring is misery - there are a lot of 'islands' in America, in cities and towns, big and small, where people are just hanging on and the circle they form around them are just in as much agreement of not peering too deep into the abyss. Whether that leads ultimately to more pain before we go, I am not sure.
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The small details in this film are brilliant, like the decision to make the coat she wears when she leaves a bright, warm, yellow colour. The colour yellow can represent happiness, joy, hope and energy. She is the metaphorical lighthouse on that bleak island and she is taking it with her. If you freeze the video at 08:19 you can see what i mean. The image of her brother Padraig, a sad, lonely, dark figure standing in a dark, gloomy doorway juxtaposed with her almost angelic figure, bathed in bright light wearing her bright, yellow coat. A figurative bright light or beacon of hope if you will in a barren and lonely landscape.
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To say I cried is an understatement. And that was before Jenny. When Siobohan left, I could just see Paderaicâs future, and it was bleak and lonely. To me Colm achieved what he wanted, to write his song, and understood the horrific consequences that came from that. A beautiful film on loneliness and depression. Iâm going to cry again. Thanks for the essay Thomas
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Siobhan is the only character who thinks that BOTH Padraic and Colm are being idiots, Padraic for not letting Colm's decision go, and Colm for cutting off their friendship for petty reasons, and doesn't side with either of them. She acknowledges how monotonous life on the island is, and actually gets the chance to expand her horizons beyond it.
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