Two hitmen flee to Bruges after a job going wrong, awaiting instructions from their ruthless boss.
The epitome of dark humour wrapped in drama. Writer/director Martin McDonagh became famous by making that film. His British, dark and phlegmatic humour found an unexpectedly large audience despite the insults to minorities and foul language. You wonder what the secret is? No political agenda. Everything the characters say and do is what the characters say and do because this is how they are. And how they are is how some real-life people are. And, like McDonagh, they don’t have a political agenda. This is how they naturally are. That is why (almost) no one was offended.
The premise is simple, the goal is defined, and the narrative does not deviate from that goal. Colin Farell, Brendan Gleeson, and Ralf Fiennes understand that and add something extra to this pseudorealism, exaggerating it only for cinematic purposes. Fiennes’s accent, for example, can’t get more cockney to deliver the British humour that Guy Richie made widely known to the world with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and The Snatch (2000). Au contraire, you could say that if McDonagh had an agenda, it would be against England, where he was born. See The Banshees of Inisherin (2022): https://kaygazpro.com/the-banshees-of-inisherin-2022-comedy-drama/.
“Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf. I think I’m heading home.” McDonagh’s bittersweet dramas have become his trademark. He can make you cry after having made you laugh out loud. That is a skill! Highly recommended to everyone who loves the Christmas-y different, the dark, and the unique!
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