While watching “God’s Creatures,” I was reminded of a Billy Joel lyric and a line of dialogue from the movie “The Departed.” The Joel song “Through the Long Night” opens with “the cold hands, the sad eyes, the dark Irish silence.” In “The Departed,” Matt Damon’s character states “What [Sigmund] Freud said about the Irish is: We’re the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis.”
Film Review: ‘God’s Creatures’: Foreboding Ennui on the Emerald Isle
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