Set in beautiful, rural Ireland in the 20s, Padraic Delaney and Cillian Murphy (whose crazy, wide-set, turquoise eyes are recognizable from the weird and wonderful Breakfast on Pluto) portray brothers who are Republican freedom fighters. They wage guerrilla war side by side in the anti-British movement until a turning point puts them on opposite sides of the ever-evolving conflict.
I am not sure I really enjoyed this movie. There were some heart-wrenching and horrific scenes and the payoff for going through it wasn't that great. The take-away message? War fuckin' sucks. There are no winners. Freedom at any cost is never as romantic as it sounds etc. etc. It was brutally sad, but I wasn't wholly sympathetic with any of the main characters, so the sadness (and my enjoyment) was diluted.
Ireland is gorgeous though. And their accents are nice. And Jon made some jokes about his wind shaking his barley. That part was pretty good too.
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