What starts as an original and funny approach to themes of friendship, loss and self growth slowly takes a dark turn to an unnecessary sequence of macabre events that ultimately end in a not so much satisfactory manner.
I have no issues with odd or unorthodox approaches to movie making but I do not personally enjoy when things take violent approaches specially when involving animals (regardless of course of the fact that no animals were really harmed) just for the sake of it... the movie as I mentioned starts with an interesting plot when one man simply decides to stop talking to his long term best friend without any concrete apparent reason for it.
The environment, the locations and of course the acting makes the movie and got me interested through half of it, then when the previously mentioned dark events start to happen it becomes strange and it slowly becomes less interesting.
I read some of the critics and interpretations of the film and aside from its themes of friendship, depression, human nature it also serves as an apparent metaphor to the real life Irish civil war, similarly to the previous Oscar season where we also had another film debating the same topic.
I get the symbolisms but again for me personally they didn't come through to me with this weird darkish comedy approach, I don't feel it's worth of Oscar recognition while I do praise the acting as well as the great atmosphere captured in rural Ireland.
I have no issues with odd or unorthodox approaches to movie making but I do not personally enjoy when things take violent approaches specially when involving animals (regardless of course of the fact that no animals were really harmed) just for the sake of it... the movie as I mentioned starts with an interesting plot when one man simply decides to stop talking to his long term best friend without any concrete apparent reason for it.
The environment, the locations and of course the acting makes the movie and got me interested through half of it, then when the previously mentioned dark events start to happen it becomes strange and it slowly becomes less interesting.
I read some of the critics and interpretations of the film and aside from its themes of friendship, depression, human nature it also serves as an apparent metaphor to the real life Irish civil war, similarly to the previous Oscar season where we also had another film debating the same topic.
I get the symbolisms but again for me personally they didn't come through to me with this weird darkish comedy approach, I don't feel it's worth of Oscar recognition while I do praise the acting as well as the great atmosphere captured in rural Ireland.