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Originally Posted by 6793026
Small Things like These
10000% not catered to a lot of us here. Not going ot be getting any awards for best action; cause it's a very slow grind.
1985 working man irish town and dealing with major influences of churches.
I can't even explain how slow the movie is but Cillian did put in a lot of work to play.
All I can say it - hard working man, family of 5 girls, man visits church, church doesn't do things properly, man feels compelled and that's about it.
There were a few scenes I had a chuckle - Cilian Murphy has a flashback wishing for a xmas present as a kid (a jigaw puzzle) and all he got was disappointment - red hot water bag. He's so sad and he goes to the barn and punches a barrel of ice.
Hilarious... i guess as a kid, i don't even know how many times we get disappointed on gifts that we never got. All the red pocket money that we know the mom and dad will just take away...
suck it uppp.
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This is background of story, wonder if this helps to understand the story in bigger perspective:
Small Things Like These is a powerful historical fiction centred on the character of Bill Furlong. He works as a coal and timber delivery man for his small town and is the father of five children and husband to his wife, Eileen. On the surface of it all, Bill should be content with his life and lot. Yet, as Keegan so eloquently unfolds the story, we learn that things are not quite what they seem for Bill.
Keegan’s historical fiction tackles the issue Magdalen laundries in Ireland, which were essentially workhouses for women (especially young and teen woman) who had fallen pregnant out of wedlock. They were run by the Catholic church and families would drop off their female family members there so they could hide their pregnancies from society. Once the child was born, the child was often forcefully removed from the mother and adopted out. There have been cases as recent as today that suggest many of the children born in these laundries died en mass. While the Magdalen laundries were particularly severe in Ireland similar establishments existed all over the world – for example, Melbourne, Australia had three such establishments.