Hi, friends, Surely I like this movie.
But some question is confusing me. How do u think about the title of this movie?
Do you think it is tight to the main idea?
Is there other meaning about "six shooter" in their country?
Does the story about the milch cow told by the young man have more meaning in this film?
And, would you like to tell me what the movie tends to express in your view?
thank you very much!
I believe the title refers to the seemingly random violence that God wreaks upon people.
In the course of the film, there are six deaths:
(1) the main character's wife,
(2) & (3) two babies who died of "cot death," which the doctor mentions at the beginning of the film, and one of which we can assume to be the baby that the couple in the train has lost,
(4) the woman who jumps out of the train,
(5) the bratty young man's mother (about whom the doctor at the beginning of the film says "her son shot the poor head off her")
(6) the bratty young man himself.
It's as if God has fired a six-shooter pistol (which only has six bullets), killing six people. So by the time the main character tries to shoot himself at the end, God has run out of bullets. (Presumably God reloads after the movie ends.) Just a theory.
awesome theory! (Thumbsup)
would the rabbit count?
Actually, I think 2 and 3 were the same baby, and the rabbit was the sixth, but yes, I agree with the theory. Great short.
shareYou're correct in saying that 2 and 3 were the same baby, but you've forgotten the cow, which makes seven deaths. Also, to be pedantic, they aren't all shot.
Interesting theory, though.
but the other 6 were human deaths, while the cow was an animal, so the theory may still be valid
shareThe cow didn't die that day so it doesn't count
shareThe title also makes one think of old Westerns (I know I did anyways). I definitely think that McDonogh is making a concious effort to juxtapose the West of Ireland with the setting of Westerns in America. The Westerns glorified and romanticized the old Wild West, and the West of Ireland often recieves a similar treatment, because it as seen as the most "Irish" area of Ireland.
Obviously, like the "Wild West," the west of Ireland isn't as glamorous as it is portrayed to be, and I think this film makes that point.
Meitzler-1, only five people die in the film -- Gleeson's wife, the baby, the woman who jumps from the train, Ruaidhri Conroy's character, and that character's mother.
sharethe gun the kid uses to shoot the cops is commonly referred to as a six-shooter
sharethere are six human deaths in the film. the doctor clearly says that there were "two cot deaths".
shareHow are there 6 deaths ?
Chronologically what we know: 1) Donelly's wife, 2)3) cot deaths 4) boy's mother whose head was blown, 5) lady who flung from the train 6) boy himself 7) rabbit
~ Well, if this is it, old boy, I hope you don't mind if I go out speaking the King's ~