Film Review: 'God's Creatures': Foreboding Ennui on the Emerald IsleR | 1h 41min | Drama, Crime, Mystery | Sept. 30, 2022 (USA)
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."
Many of the characters in "God's Creatures" indeed have cold hands, sad eyes, and exhibit dark Irish silence, and, chances are, the best psychotherapist in the world couldn't prod any of them into saying boo. These are a people (and, for the record, over half of my DNA is Irish based) who can sustain poker faces and carry grudges for years, if not decades, and seem to have a sixth sense as to know exactly when to open up their own respective emotional pressure valves....
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