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philosophy behind the movie

posted 18 years ago by samsatitagain
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Im usually good with the message behind of a lot of movie

i just can't see it on this one

its just so unclear

what do you think its saying

i loved the movie just it all seemed so unclear to me

The plot I get but i got a breif impression that it had to do with what living without shame does to us or how we can we all destroy ourselfs by living in the past

and i got mixed ideas about what the cow symbolized

or was it just suposed to be funny

I laughed out loud but would you realy say this is a "comedy"

and how did that guy leave with the gun think about all the people who must have searched his stuff for evidence before he left after the other guy got shot
you would have thaught he would have just baught his own gun

[–] This_is_my_boomstick 18 years ago

I'd say this was an extremely dark and irony-filled comedy. So there was no deep philosophy behind it.

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[–] Pasion_y_Duende 18 years ago

and how did that guy leave with the gun think about all the people who must have searched his stuff for evidence before he left after the other guy got shot

First off: this is a short film so there wasn't time enough to show Donnelly buying is own gun.
second of all: that's called "creative license", chaval ("lad").
And the film doesn't necessarily have to have any message at all. It's just an emotive, heartrendering, poignant, attention-grabbing evocative film. A "slice-of-life" drama.

Incidentally, doesn't that short cow-guy looked like Phil Collins with a beard?

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[–] tamada-2 18 years ago

and i got mixed ideas about what the cow symbolized

or was it just suposed to be funny

Just supposed to be funny; one of the main characteristics of the movie was to mix darkest tragedy and violence with humor, even slapstick humor

I laughed out loud but would you realy say this is a "comedy"

Black comedy, with the emphasis on black.

and how did that guy leave with the gun think about all the people who must have searched his stuff for evidence before he left after the other guy got shot
you would have thaught he would have just baught his own gun

Well to the police he would've looked like a victim or an innocent bystander (which he basically was); quite possibly they'd let him go without frisking him.

As for buying his own gun, it was undoubtedly a spur-of-the-moment decision; also I don't know what the gun control laws are like in Ireland but it may not be all that easy to buy a gun.

[–] harmanjitsingh 15 years ago

The film is about attitude to loss and death.

The clue to the philosophy behind the film is the short dialogue regarding God.

How do you deal with death in a Godless world, where it doesn't have much meaning.

The young brat is too cool and indifferent about life and death.
The cot-death couple are deeply in sorrow.
The protagonist is just confused ("don't know where you are, babe!") and a little sad.

Life becomes fun only if you stop looking at death as a tragedy. Death is constantly around us, in our stories, in our thoughts and memories, in our future. To live life as if death can happen any moment, with no deep meaning behind it, is the "secret" of life.

the young brat dies happy. he is not malicious, doesn't really hurt others, he is just too ballsy (and realizes it when he remarks to himself "did i go overboard there, like.")

can't say the same about everybody else. the woman dies of sorrow, her husband will probably go downhill, the protagonist wanted to kill himself AND in the act of killing himself, realized the meaninglessness of death.

[–] hey_treacle 15 years ago

I just caught this on TV. I noted the similarity (dialogue) to in Bruges without knowing the director and thought it was fantastic, made me laugh out loud a few times which at three in the morning isn't a great thing for my asleep girlfriend.

If you were looking for philsophical principles behind the film in its portrayal of the chaos and cruelty of life it adheres to existentialist frameworks with a very funny dash of nilhism. very witty, involving and profound. I love the last line of dialogue as well. in tone it kind of evoked the literature of Celine, namely journey to the end of the night.