Movie rec

[aycheb]

Partner brought home In Bruges as the third in a “three for the price of two” DVD deal. It’s a Colin Farrell movie. It’s fucking brilliant. I really don’t want to give anything away because part of the joy of it is in how the story unfolds and the reveals slip in. Content aside, it feels like a filmic version of Flan O’Brien’s The Third Policeman

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[elisi]

It’s fucking brilliant.
Amen! We watched it a while ago, and were utterly drawn in, although I did feel that it kinda veered off into OTT-ness towards the end - the start is so quiet and genuinely moving that I was a little sad to see that spoiled. Still - definitely brilliant! :)

[aycheb]

We watched it over three nights so I think I was ready for how it ended and though shocking at one level it did have a tragicomic inevitabilty to it. Like every single part of it had been set up in the beginning even though you weren't really looking for it then.

[azdak]

I worship the ground on which Martin Macdonagh walks.

[aycheb]

He's the writer? I'll join that cult. Oooh (googles) he wrote The Pillowman. Feels uncultured.

[azdak]

He's the director as well. He won an Oscar for his first film, Six Shooter (Best Short Film, not Best Film, but still...), which he also wrote. And his plays are *amazing*.

[aycheb]

Yes and it took me by surprise because although I vaguely remembered the reviewers liking it that was all I had to go on.