“Many’s the person missed the opportunity to say nothing, and lost much because of it.”
I’m tearing up. Been a while since I tore up at a movie. The Quiet Girl works wonders, moving slowly, only showing and letting the audience figure out the formed and forming dynamics between Cáit and her relatives. For the story it tells, the film does extraordinarily well in its slow-paced depiction, taking no shortcuts, emotional or otherwise—all leading up to the payoff of the…
Been a year since I watched the first one. Didn't think I'd like this one with how it began and started to play out, but eventually warmed up to it when it got adventurous and fun again.
Highlights:
-Spud's auteur beginnings.
-Mark & Simon in that loyalist pub. Aye, God save the Queen and all that, so it is.
-Veronika.
-Diane cameo.
-Those flashbacks to those infantile days.
-More trains.
-More trains.
-More trains.
Choose trains.
Wong Kar-wai is the best director of all time, bar none. His scintillating style is a dizziness spell that can cure headaches. The subway chase, for instance, is so blurry and shaky, and yet I’m all enchanted by it. He also always manages to capture shots of planes whizzing by in the best of best places, at the best of best angles.
The second story is a far cry from the exhilarating gunslinging of the first story, but the film…
There’s so much to unpack here. Say Nothing is non-fiction with a bit of those minor change-ups (creative liberties) sprinkled in—except it’s much more complicated. An adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s novel of the same name (Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland), it provides a perspective, one wherein the truth will always be murky. Why? Because Gerry Adams keeps denying every damn everything. The disclaimer at the end of every episode, “Gerry Adams has…
