Directed by: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko
Running time: 110 minutes
Only few movies managed to transcend genre barriers, lies as a cross for so many movie genres and absurdly entertaining. The Coens are successful in doing that with Fargo and No Country for Old Men, Quentin Tarantino with his movies and this one that does not easily fall into the drama/comedy/buddy movie genre manages to do the same too.
But for me this is a semi-meta film which remind me of Adaptation, that tells the power of storytelling, redemption and how people manages to face the harshness of life, all presented in a unique way by McDonagh. It is amazing, not in a jaw dropping way but in a contemplative one that the delicateness of the story can be presented as clever as possible.
I can relate to stories about writers having difficulties finding muse for his writings, I am a writer myself and must face so many moments where I just don't know what to write but the deadlines are chasing me. Although I haven't write any screenplay (not yet) but this is the sort of movie I put close at heart. Writing is not just punching keyboards and it's all done in 15 minutes. Writing is a result of our thought process, equipped by our own unique experience and it all ended in words and sentences. After you write you feel a sense of fulfillment that you can sort all the randomness inside your head into something more structured and tangible. Writing should be everybody's habit since if you write and re-read what you write several years later, you get to know who you really are and that you realize that you had more layers than you thought you have.
Using a shih-tzu dog as a Mac Guffin, it works well just like that suitcase in Pulp Fiction and rabbit's foot in Mission: Impossible 3. The story is about Marty (Collin Farrell) a screenwriter in Los Angeles who is struggling to write his screenplay titled "Seven Psychopaths". Living the Irish stereotype (alcoholic and look gloomy), his friend, Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a dog-thief, dragging his problems into Billy's doorstep, thus set chains of events that involved Hans (Christopher Walken) and a crime boss in a very unpredictable way.
I have to give thumbs up to the writing since it doesn't take five hours to put everything together, the layers of the stories managed to convey the message pretty well helped by good acting quality, except for Colin Farrell who looks like he is playing the same character in In Bruges (which happen to be the first film Farrell worked with McDonagh). It also avoid so many movie cliches, thus makes this film genuinely original (did I just wrote that?) in the year where most movies are sequels, comic book adaptation or based on a best selling novel.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko
Running time: 110 minutes
Only few movies managed to transcend genre barriers, lies as a cross for so many movie genres and absurdly entertaining. The Coens are successful in doing that with Fargo and No Country for Old Men, Quentin Tarantino with his movies and this one that does not easily fall into the drama/comedy/buddy movie genre manages to do the same too.
But for me this is a semi-meta film which remind me of Adaptation, that tells the power of storytelling, redemption and how people manages to face the harshness of life, all presented in a unique way by McDonagh. It is amazing, not in a jaw dropping way but in a contemplative one that the delicateness of the story can be presented as clever as possible.
I can relate to stories about writers having difficulties finding muse for his writings, I am a writer myself and must face so many moments where I just don't know what to write but the deadlines are chasing me. Although I haven't write any screenplay (not yet) but this is the sort of movie I put close at heart. Writing is not just punching keyboards and it's all done in 15 minutes. Writing is a result of our thought process, equipped by our own unique experience and it all ended in words and sentences. After you write you feel a sense of fulfillment that you can sort all the randomness inside your head into something more structured and tangible. Writing should be everybody's habit since if you write and re-read what you write several years later, you get to know who you really are and that you realize that you had more layers than you thought you have.
Using a shih-tzu dog as a Mac Guffin, it works well just like that suitcase in Pulp Fiction and rabbit's foot in Mission: Impossible 3. The story is about Marty (Collin Farrell) a screenwriter in Los Angeles who is struggling to write his screenplay titled "Seven Psychopaths". Living the Irish stereotype (alcoholic and look gloomy), his friend, Billy (Sam Rockwell) is a dog-thief, dragging his problems into Billy's doorstep, thus set chains of events that involved Hans (Christopher Walken) and a crime boss in a very unpredictable way.
I have to give thumbs up to the writing since it doesn't take five hours to put everything together, the layers of the stories managed to convey the message pretty well helped by good acting quality, except for Colin Farrell who looks like he is playing the same character in In Bruges (which happen to be the first film Farrell worked with McDonagh). It also avoid so many movie cliches, thus makes this film genuinely original (did I just wrote that?) in the year where most movies are sequels, comic book adaptation or based on a best selling novel.
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