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Damon liked the story and they agreed to make the film
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In 1985, devoted Father Bill Furlong uncovers disturbing secrets held by a local convent and discovers shocking truths of his own. While Cillian Murphy was in talks to work with Tim Mielants again, Murphy’s wife suggested that they make a film out of the novel “Small Things Like This.” He didn’t expect the rights to be available, but he called his agent Claire Keegan, who said yes. After securing the rights with producing partner Alan Moloney, Murphy pitched the idea to Matt Damon, who founded the studio to produce the film with Ben Affleck. Eileen Furlong: If you want to get ahead in this life, there are things you have to ignore. Dedicated to the more than 56,000 young women who were sent to the Magdalene Institutes between 1922 and 1998 for “penance and rehabilitation.” And to the children who were taken from them.
This is Ireland in the Dark Ages
He was in 60 Minutes: Red Sea Crisis/The Selectors/Finding Cillian Murphy (2024). It took me a few days to process this film. To everyone who asked me “Did you like it?” I couldn’t give them an answer. I didn’t like it, and for one simple reason, it’s so immersive, so meditative, that I just made it my own. There were moments when I found myself not breathing for a few seconds during scenes, other moments when I was smiling, there were moments when I felt my chest heaviness.
It’s a small town
When you start watching this film, you might feel like you’re in the 50s, but it was actually the mid-80s. The Catholic Church ran the show and it was so ingrained in the institutions that it controlled education and therefore shaped the culture of the time. So there’s this story, which is unfortunately true, and it takes place in New Ross, Ireland. The film does a fantastic job of introducing the oppressive atmosphere, even showing the main character, Bill Furlong, doing very repetitive work tasks at the beginning. It’s all part of putting yourself in the right environment.
Small town, closed, everyone knows everything and everyone
Perception is key, show your best side, hide the bad, homologate, don’t think outside the box. And repeat. In the midst of a nervous breakdown, we meet Bill Furlong, who was the orphaned son of a young mother, raised by the lucky woman whose mother worked. He has a difficult childhood because despite being raised by a rich woman, he doesn’t belong in this world, and times are not kind to a fatherless child. He tries to come to terms with his past when one day, while delivering coal to the city convent, he finds a girl who was left there overnight in a cold shed.
It is beautifully shot to highlight the darkness and gloom to fit the heavy tone of the story
His struggle between his personal interests and doing the right thing is strong, he has 5 daughters, the nuns control the education of his talented daughters, so his future prospects, those he loves and for whom he has worked all his life, and they act right, morally and ethically. thing, moreover, his mother could have been such a girl if she had not been lucky enough to be taken in by a kind person. He is forced to look away, to ignore the other people who suffer for the sake of their own family, but when the one who looks away is the one who understands the pain, who has been there and knows what it means, looking at the other becomes much more difficult. I found the use of blurry lenses incredible and key to the story, when you see something you don’t want to see, something you want to block out. The scene with Eileen in the living room is an incredible example: she listens but ignores it, she doesn’t really want to know.
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