Don't really know where to begin with this. Was billed as a black comedy but it's not ... exactly. What it is is very very very Irish. There are some smiles throughout. Sad smiles. But it's dark. And lingering. There is death. Of course there is. Resignation. A pervasive sense of the hopelessness of it all. Long, stunning shots of a beautiful countryside and a simple people, locked in a paradoxical dance. It's brilliant, of course. It has hugely gifted actors and is written and directed by Martin McDonagh and is infused with deeper messaging -- about depression and self-care, about politics, you name it. And it almost never went where I thought it would go. But I didn't like where it went. So does that make it a good film or bad? Hard to say. This is definitely one of those "eye of the beholder" things. Viewers will get different things out of it depending on what they bring to it.
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