3 elements thrown together, crossed fingers that it will work, and it doesn't. The characters are obviously stuck where they are because this story has locked them into it, leaving the actors to do what they can with the equally intuitive voided script. The obscurity could have been banked on much more, to speak about death, life, value, even better symbolized for guilt. Two women who worked as photographers on the dig Mercie Lack and Barbara Wagstaff are chucked out of the story entirely, and replaced by Johnny Flynns love interest Rory Lomax, who didnt.
"The moonshine will burn the memory out of him! Argh." The reveal of all the holes that have been dug is also wasted. Unless of course we just throw it in and change directions. This is your master plan, director? I found that extremely laughable! Two dimensional, character limiting considering the animosity of grief between characters, it does not make much sense. He is given moonshine to drink twice a day to help him remember his crime? Ah, oh, okay. There are many plot holes, just in the concept that 15 years of prison have passed alone - the main character can't remember, hasn't recalled his crime, made peace? etc. The script did not make good use of the lead actor. The film is bleak, gray, grim, and muddy. I sure hope this is not considered the height of Irish Cinema.
And the characters shaped out to be more stupid as the dialogue went further, 0.5hr mark. I feel that once the dialogue came into play, much of the basic instincts that held my interest in silence simply fell apart. The zero dialogue intro held my interest enough to wait for a focused story resolution to take shape. Perhaps other reviewers found the "returning murder making his way to redeeming himself" character idea catchy enough to continue watching. Very much like a stumbling cold drunk, who's brain cells have been diminished.
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