One of those rare, pretty much perfect films. An absolute gem that's really hard to categorize, like many of the best movies. Amazing writing, performances and cinematography. Edit: I hope you and yours are OK. Take care, nice dudes!🥃🥃
I am pretty old and have seen over 2000 films. I have seen this film at least 4 times. It is is in my top 25 which is pretty darn good for that many films. Colin Farrell best performance in his life. So sad, so funny. This is near perfect. Side note: met Farrell in South Dakota at a bar. He and a friend were driving to NYC where he was doing a role in 10 days or so. I asked him if I could buy him beer. He said no…He would buy me one. I told him I loved him in The New World. In a very self deprecating way, he said thanks, you are the only one. I gained loads of respect for him and began to closely following his career. And in real life his accent is very, very Irish
I don't think Ken dying is in vain. However, I don't think his reason for his sacrifice is to get to heaven or some better place. I think that Ken, Ray and Harry are all normal people who chose to do bad things and that makes them bad people, unlike some Hannibal Lecter monster that is born bad. Harry and Ken are both trying to do the right thing to alleviate their feelings of being bad people. Harry isn't avenging a kid or punishing Ray he is simply trying to reconcile what he has done with his moral code. He is not trying to buy his way into heaven. Ken is the same. He believes Ray is a good guy who made a mistake and redeeming him, not robotically killing him by Harry's orders, is his moral code. They are both driven to their extremes of their moral code to balance their extreme evil. If you notice, both Ken and Harry are just as miserable as Ray is. Ray is simply younger and is dealing with a guilt bomb what he did to the kid. Either way all three are running away from their problems in their ways instead of just not being bad people anymore.
One of those rare, pretty much perfect films. An absolute gem that's really hard to categorize, like many of the best movies. Amazing writing, performances and cinematography. Edit: I hope you and yours are OK. Take care, nice dudes!🥃🥃
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I’ve loved this movie since I first watched it. It’s so damn good. Absolutely top 10 favorite movie of all time. Maybe even top 5
I am pretty old and have seen over 2000 films. I have seen this film at least 4 times. It is is in my top 25 which is pretty darn good for that many films. Colin Farrell best performance in his life. So sad, so funny.
This is near perfect.
Side note: met Farrell in South Dakota at a bar. He and a friend were driving to NYC where he was doing a role in 10 days or so. I asked him if I could buy him beer. He said no…He would buy me one. I told him I loved him in The New World. In a very self deprecating way, he said thanks, you are the only one. I gained loads of respect for him and began to closely following his career. And in real life his accent is very, very Irish
What a great story!!!
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If you haven't seen it, McDonagh won his Oscar for the short film "Six Shooter". It's available on UA-cam.
Oooh I didn’t know about this. Thanks for the recommendation
I don't think Ken dying is in vain. However, I don't think his reason for his sacrifice is to get to heaven or some better place. I think that Ken, Ray and Harry are all normal people who chose to do bad things and that makes them bad people, unlike some Hannibal Lecter monster that is born bad.
Harry and Ken are both trying to do the right thing to alleviate their feelings of being bad people. Harry isn't avenging a kid or punishing Ray he is simply trying to reconcile what he has done with his moral code. He is not trying to buy his way into heaven. Ken is the same. He believes Ray is a good guy who made a mistake and redeeming him, not robotically killing him by Harry's orders, is his moral code. They are both driven to their extremes of their moral code to balance their extreme evil.
If you notice, both Ken and Harry are just as miserable as Ray is. Ray is simply younger and is dealing with a guilt bomb what he did to the kid. Either way all three are running away from their problems in their ways instead of just not being bad people anymore.
That’s an interesting take! Everyone’s avoiding facing the music