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Neil Jordan adapts Patrick McCabe's novel about Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), an overimaginative boy whose dire home life turns his harmless fantasies into murderous delusions. When his abusive father...( read more 
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MCT:April 8, 2008Just an outstanding film. The black humour is hilarious and disturbing at the same time, and that kid puts in one of the best all-time acting performances by a child ever. Fantastically scripted as well.
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MCT:March 13, 2008THE BUTCHER BOY is not a children's film. It tackles many issues of the modern and traditional vision of Ireland. It is certainly not an easy film to understand, because of the historical content and the heavy Irish accent. But overall, the film is very interesting and disturbing at times. if you dont get into the story, well at least you will enjoy the astonishing performance by the little boy who plays the lead role. He could be hilarious and disturbing. As a young boy, his imagination and hallucination are all he has despite his miserable life.
Certainly a film not to miss! -
MCT:January 15, 2008
You can't write off Francie Brady, apple-cheeked hero of The Butcher Boy, as a bad seed and have done with him. In Irish director Neil Jordan's often-surreal fairy tales, bad seeds grow the fruit of subversive knowledge: A master of blending the everyday with the truly mad and wonderfully weird, Jordan loves to encourage charismatic anarchists--driven by amoral energy and imagination--to attack the status quo with extreme prejudice. Exuberant Francie (Eamonn Owens, making a splendid debut) is a thorn in the side of rural Irish repression and hypocrisy. Better to call this smart, too-sensitive brat an ambulatory Rorschach, an uncensored billboard of his disapproving society's uglier truths and fears. A nonstop standup comedian ("And the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Award goes to--Great God, I think it's Francie Brady!"), he projects fantasies of '60s cold war paranoia (atomic warfare leaves his village a graveyard of charred pigs), American "cowboys and Indians" pop culture, and Catholic Madonna worship (Sinead O'Connor appears as an earthy Virgin Mary). But Francie's rich fantasy life is no match for reality's "slings and arrows": His abusive da (Stephen Rea) pickles himself in drink, his fragile mother edges closer to suicide, "blood brother" Joe turns Judas, and a punitive stint at a Catholic reformatory ends with our Gaelic Holden Caulfield tricked out in girlish bonnet and ruffles, plaything of an addled old priest (Milo O'Shea). No wonder Francie's ultimately driven to exorcize his own Wicked Witch of the West. (He sees Mrs. Nugent (Fiona Shaw), self-righteous pillar of a callous community, as the cause of his cursed life.) Laced with tragedy and hilarity, great beauty and horror, Jordan's adaptation of the Patrick McCabe bestseller mutates the adventures of Francie Brady--psychotic killer, performance artist, and purest innocent--into a sort of saint's life.
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MCT:January 4, 2008
The Butcher Boy (1998)
Directed by Neil Jordan
Starring Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea and Sinead O'Connor.
In most of Irish director Neil Jordan's dark comedies, main characters are often anarchists doing bad things, but the way Jordan are showing them to the screen, we have the impression that they are good. In fact, Jordan makes them charismatic. It was the same in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto, in which the nearly perfect Cillian Murphy is Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a prostitute transvestite not very reasonable.
And the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Award goes to--Great God, I think it's Francie Brady!The Butcher Boy shows us youngster Francie Brady, a young teenager having trouble with authority who doesn't respect the law. During the entire movie, he accumulates the bad actions, actions that are getting worse and worse during the movie. Eamonn Owens makes an astonishing debut to a promising acting career. Despite his lack of experience, Owens is incredibly mature in the movie. He gives an astonishing lead to the film. In fact, all the actors are great, Stephen Rea is Francie's alcoolic father. Francie's parents are, according to me, responsible of what he had become. I mean, when Francie's mother dies, he began to be a violent bastard. And a pig.
The Butcher Boy is funny. One of the good dark humoured comedy I've seen for a while. If it's not the way Brady's talk that will make you laugh, or adult Brady narrating the story, maybe you will find funny that Sinead O'Connor appears in the movie as the Virgin Mary (Knowing what she did with a pair of scissors and a picture of the Pope), giving some advices to Francie.
Ah, Francie, for fuck sake.
Falling into insanity, Francie Brady finds refuge in his imagination, where he has some fascinating hallucinations about the Cold War and the Communist pigs.
I am not sure which one of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto I prefered the most, because they are both great. And because they are similar. It is hard for me to choose one between the both movies for those reasons, but I saw Breakfast on Pluto around a year ago, and if I remember, I didn't laugh as I did during The Butcher Boy. Anyway, Neil Jordan makes pretty good movie, he is definitely an excellent director. -
MCT:October 20, 2007In it's most schizophrenic, most surreal moments, "The Butcher Boy" is a horrifying and powerful piece of cinema. The other 3/4 is a mixture between watered down "Waking Ned Divine" and Martin McDonagh-esque lambasting of life in rural Ireland and the ROCKSTAR game "Bully".
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