spoons’s review published on Letterboxd:
(said with all the weight of living in a country that has both caused and felt suffering) haha average irish dad lore. typical tale of sad, soft-hearted irish boy turned sad, soft-hearted irish man. i saw so many older irish men i know and grew up with in billy and thats kind of tragic in as much as its familiar and warm.
i was expecting this movie to be more documentary style in actually talking about the laundries and what occurred there and in some ways i'm frustrated that it was more cillian murphy than that but at the same time i don't think i would have enjoyed torture porn about the real suffering of women. this movie takes exactly the time, weight and tone that it needs to say what it wants to say and i really really appreciated that.
i genuinely felt billy's anxiety and desperation at seeing society failing the people around him again and again and for that i love this movie. in many ways i too am a sad, soft-hearted irish man.
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