For me, it was the proposal scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6oF9OpmjGw

What acting.

Oh, yeah, genius. And heartbreaking :'(

That scene is heartbreaking to watch. Keoghan deserved the academy award for best supporting actor this year IMO (as for best screenplay, while I think Banshee's should've gotten it, it was pretty close and EEAAO would've been my second choice anyway),

Is it supposed to be a caricature of a mentally disabled person? What is great about that acting? Not being rhetorical here, I'm not a person of high culture.

Basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q

Barry Keoghan continues to steal the show. He's in the recent The Green Night for a few minutes only but still pulls it off.

If I'm being honest, I have no idea what's going on in this scene.

as a quick vignette of life at one of the stops of the short bus, sure; but as it relates to the rest of the movie and why is it in there, I agree with you.

Loved it too, It's funny in the absurdity of it all and the dialogue. There's a delicate balance of dark humour, the Irish charm of the setting and characters, and subtle deeper aspects that emerge from initially simple seeming characters that tops it all off. Not to mention the excellent acting.

But I suspect a lot of that is a subjective taste, so it's not surprising it's not widely appreciated.

> the Irish charm of the setting and characters

I find Irish people perfectly charming, but when it comes to the themes of Irish film and literature, charming does not oft spring to my lips. Did you watch this film to the end? warmed the cockles of your heart did it?

I was really down after I left the movie. It was unexpectedly one of the most depressing movies I've seen, right down there with The Reflecting Skin, Irreversible and Black Rain. It is a good movie, and I'm pleased that there's room in the public attention for movies like this, but the way that people talk about it I wonder if we even saw the same movie. I'm in no hurry to watch it again.

As I said not for everyone, I watched it to the end, not sure why you are implying otherwise.

>not sure why you are implying otherwise

i didn't imply anything, I literally asked, and more importantly, in a rhetorical sense as a lead-in to what I said after.

my comments in my opinion, like the film in your opinion, are not for everyone, only for people of superior taste.

> only for people of superior taste.

I'm not taking your bate soz.