![]() Over the course of several discussions, we learn that Colm has come to find Pádraic dull (and the earnest fellow’s conversation is indeed limited, if amiable), and that he believes he’s got better things to do with his time, like compose songs on his fiddle. This turns out to be a bit of inadvertent prophecy. Before he sets out, he makes a remark about Colm to his sister Siobhán ( Kerry Condon), who sarcastically replies, “Maybe he just don’t like you no more.” The Carter Burwell score evokes idyllic times, and we see life is rather easy for Pádraic (Farrell) a milk farmer who lives with his sister in a modest cottage and, apparently, calls on his old friend Colm (Gleeson) just about every day at two. It begins with a beautiful overhead shot of the title Irish island, all green below a clear blue sky (in this picture it only rains at night, which, considering actual weather patterns in Ireland, places the film in yet another genre, that of fantasy). This being a McDonagh work, it’s a comedy of mortification as well as exasperation.
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