The Quiet
Girl based on Foster by Claire Keegan, author of the stupendous Small Things
Like These http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/09/small-things-like-these-by-claire.html long listed for The 2022 Booker
Prize
10 out of
10
I have been
elated by Small Things Like These http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/11/awed-by-small-things-like-these-by.html by Claire Keegan, I wish she had
won the Booker Prize – I have not read the winner, however, seeing as I have learned
about the subject, the other world, ghosts and the like, it does not look like
I will read it, never mind prefer it to the magnificent short narrative…were it
to win, it would have been the shortest chef d’oeuvre to get the Booker – and I
came with high expectations to The Quiet Girl.
It is
recommended that we lower our expectations, in order to aspire to be happy,
only in the case of this work, The Quiet Girl delivers, this note is about the
motion picture based on the story, which has been nominated for the Academy
Award for Best International Feature Film, two BAFTAs, one for Best Film not in
The English Language, seeing as it is mostly in Irish, with passages that are
in English, but few and far between, and the other for Best Adapted Screenplay,
and it is clearly one of the best movies of 2022.
We could
argue that Argentina, 1985 http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/01/one-of-best-films-of-2022-argentina-1985.html would have the upper hand, more
chances, since it has won the Golden Globe for Best Film in a Foreign Language
it may have a head start, and it is an impressive, extraordinary tale, looking
at the period that followed the dictatorship in Argentina, in 1985 as it
happens.
The army had
been committing atrocities, killing, torturing people, taking large numbers
over the ocean and then dropping them to their death, women gave birth in
gruesome circumstances, they have been raped, abused, and we have the chance to
hear their testimony in court, the first civilian one in the world to take to
the stand the military, which denied their responsibility, until they would be
found guilty.
Then we
have the equally outstanding All Quiet On The Western Front http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/02/all-quiet-on-western-front-by-erich.html - an earlier adaptation has won the
Academy Award for Best Motion Picture, and that was seventy or more years ago –
which has been shortlisted for multiple Oscars, BAFTAs and other prestigious
trophies, a favorite to win for International Film
The Quiet
Girl does not have the explosions, turmoil, incredible production display of
All Quite on the Western Front, or the intense drama which is part of Argentina,
1985, where the testimonies are hard to hear, telling the public about horrors
that had been inflicted in the name of the fight against enemies of the people
However,
there is plenty to admire in The Quiet Girl and to feel deeply sad about…The
Quiet Girl is an unlucky child, living with parents that have too many children
– one of the splendid, hilarious sketches of the best comedy team in the
history of the world, Monty Python, comes to mind http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/05/and-now-for-something-completely.html wherein the regretted Terry Jones
plays the mother of…maybe 132 children, all pressed inside a flat, with a
dialogue that is attacking the imposition of the Catholic Church, which
considers all sex destined for procreation, otherwise it is a dreadful sin, to
make matters worse, I think they still forbid contraception – and they neglect
her
Somehow,
The Quiet Girl reminds me of another great motion picture, 4 Months, 3 Weeks
and 2 Days http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/05/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days-aka-4-luni.html, the work of Cristian Mungiu and a
team of extremely talented people, in which we have a look at what has happened
during the tyranny of the Ceausescu regime, one which outlawed abortion, and
the tragedy of the film centers on what happens when a baby is not wanted, and
the young woman has few choices.
She is expected
by the dictatorship to have the child, raise him, her or they so that the
despot could have more soldiers for his army of subjects, to work for him and
his acolytes – I have heard in the eternal sauna, the place where the most
extravagant, and yet widely circulated on the net, conspiracies are brought to
life, with admirers of…Putin trying to convince me that the Americans are to
blame, the poor Kremlin Monster is in fact a sweet pussycat (or just a pussy
with atomic weapons we could say, and we could be politically incorrect here,
nobody is reading), that Ceausescu was in fact a firm believer in the ideals of
communism and he did not really know what was going on, which is so damn
stupid…
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html this is a link that will show you
an article in Newsweek, the one covering the Revolution of 1989, at the end of
which Ceausescu and his wife would be shot dead, one in which I have taken part
(and I am so proud of it, no matter how futile it was on some fronts,
disregarding the fact that it eventually brought to power the second echelon,
the children of the former nomenclature and the apparatchiks themselves in most
cases, that I keep mentioning this, give you the link, no matter if there is
any connection or not, if it feels like by the way, good, if there is no
incidentally) and seeing The Quiet Girl made me remember the many orphans that
ended up abandoned, because parents could not take care of them…
mothers
were forced to give birth, even when the father was absent and they had no
means to offer protection, food – in the communist era, there was a shortage of
everything, eatables, electricity, heating, liberty was absent – and thus we
ended up with families that resembled to a degree what we see in The Quiet Girl
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