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Ep. 49: The Banshees of Inisherin

Cinema of Meaning

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The Island Dummy - A Darker Look at Dominic's Relationship With Dominic

At first i thought he was just maybe a way to kind of enlarge our perspective of badric or kind of clarify that there's an interesting dynamic also between the two where they seem to connect. Dominic mostly seems to just get by with badric as long as he can right offer him whiskey and as long as badric doesn't have another friend that he'd rather be with. His story did take a dark turn when he wasn't but it was revealed he was not just being like beaten by an overly aggressive father but also molested by him sexually which felt like almost needlessly dark. The movie overall i think is just a tragedy  and what you've talked about for me part speaking

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