Good analysis! It's definitely more about art than the Irish Civil War, and I think it's smart to read the historical setting as a distancing strategy: what if it's really a movie about the present, and McDonagh wanted to hide that? I keep wondering if Pádraic isn't, say, Twitter.
Also welcome to The Stack!
I think Padraic is def Twitter , especially if he starts as prestige normie Twitter but ends as a Twitter troll
Good analysis! It's definitely more about art than the Irish Civil War, and I think it's smart to read the historical setting as a distancing strategy: what if it's really a movie about the present, and McDonagh wanted to hide that? I keep wondering if Pádraic isn't, say, Twitter.