The Banshees of Inisherin got a 14ish-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival ‘22. Imagine a food delivery order that the dasher marked delivered but arrived a minute late. Then multiply that wait by 14. That’s how long an applause. If there was one thing the internet has taught us, one cannot just love some content and be content with that. Memetics. Need to create more content from it and one-up all the others to remain the one true fan - The only Potterhead Who Lived.
As if several hundreds of pages worth of script writing, thousands of hours shooting and curating it into a feature length film wasn’t enough. Someone has to come in and imansplain it all over again. Yes. I must repeat it all with my personal takes and put them on the blog, just to get it all out of the system. This movie touches the audience on so many different, philosophical levels, that even if one wanted to - they couldn’t stop thinking about how Martin McDonagh’s mind really works