#kneecap

[ayeforscotland]

The British government has blocked Belfast rap group, Kneecap, from receiving arts funding.

As Belfast residents they pay tax to the British government and are should have access to funds/grants regardless of their stance on the union.

Source.

[irishyuri]

you've no idea how excited i am for this film

[lostinmac]

Kneecap (2024)

Dir. Rich Peppiatt

[celine-song]

Kneecap (2024) dir. Rich Peppiatt

[thatsbelievable]

[an-ruraiocht]

reviews of the Kneecap film on letterboxd are so funny, they come in several distinct types:

"this is an amazing, passionate cry for minority language rights. I had never heard the Irish language before and didn't know this was an issue but I'm firmly invested now"

"1* no idea what was going on. they should've subtitled the English bits too"

[extended all-caps string of Kneecap lyrics]

"overly edgy romanticisation of drugs by wannabe revolutionaries. also completely ridiculous. none of this would ever happen. what do you mean they're a real band"

"5*s inspirational as fuck I'm gonna go and do ketamine"

[aeolianblues]

The weirdly life affirming thing about fandom and some of the adoration that comes with it, particularly as pertains to real people, is that fans will love all the parts of you. That what is deemed ‘marketable’ by the press release and everything else they left out. If you come from something, fans will keep it alive. A Sam Fender fan away in Nebraska, USA will learn the Geordie dialect to accurately write Sam Fender x reader fanfic. They will keep alive a dialect declining even in Newcastle. As long as someone knows it, it lives on. The more people into it, the more beloved it becomes; it has a resurgence, it carries on. A Kneecap fan in Indonesia whose third language is English decides Irish Gaeilge can be their fourth. The Eurovision fans decided they can learn all of Finnish after being drawn to one song about piña coladas (and the super endearing Käärijä!)

Fandom is so much more than some base lowly shit to be embarrassed about that people like to reduce it to. It’s a powerful mode of culture. It’s so much more than about writing ‘your silly little stories about your pathetic men’; fandom is the reason American Blur fans flew thousands of miles overseas to be at Wembley last summer. Fandom is checking your IG stories after that gig and seeing that other well-loved musicians also have the same story as you because they were at that gig too. It is months later hearing Grian Chatten from Fontaines D.C. say that part of their new song was inspired by going to that Wembley show, and knowing exactly what he meant by that.

It is about shared cultural moments, it’s about the realisation that nothing is ever strictly in the past, and that we are sharing and creating culture in the now. I don’t know where I’m going with this, I was just struck by the connection between culture and pop culture. Don’t let people tell you they’re different worlds, I suppose

[lucy-sky]

Constantine (2005) vs. Kneecap (2024)

[sztupy]

Almost missed that the best british @northirish movie of the year is out on streaming platforms

Thank god I don't have anything important right now and can rewatch it

[werewolfetone]

[mrtramplebone]

Spread bald awareness, stop drawing Dave Miller and Jack Kennedy with hair.

[nevereacheaven]

watch kneecap it has everything movies are scared of now: drugs, sex, and indigenous languages

[barnabyseyelashes]

RTÉ says Kneecap agreed not to wear pro-Palestine badges on The Late Late, but did anyway

RTÉ HAS RELEASED a statement clarifying that rap trio Kneecap had agreed not to wear pro-Palestine badges during their Late Late Show performance last night through their management, but then proceeded to wear them anyway live on air. 

On last night’s Late Late Show, Kneecap performed their new single ‘Better Way to Live’ and then chatted to host Patrick Kielty.

Kneecap’s Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap wore a watermelon badge – it’s become a pro-Palestine accessory because its colours match that of the Palestine flag.

However, during the chat with Kielty, DJ Próvaí removed his jacket to reveal a Palestine sports jersey.

Kneecap’s Móglaí Bap then said, to applause from the audience, that the group wants to “use our platform to highlight the genocide that’s happening in Palestine at the moment”.

He said that over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed “by American weapons” in the conflict so far, the majority of whom are women and children.

He added: “I think we have to use this platform and this opportunity to appeal to Irish people to attend rallies and protests and to support the BDS movement, and to show solidarity with Palestine and hopefully one day Palestine will be free.”

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[wearethekingdom]

Caithfimid cur cosc ar na daoine a bhfuil ag fágail léirmheasanna uafásacha ar an scanánn Kneecap mar gheall ar a bheith suite in Éireann agus an Gaeilge an teanga a labhra��onn siad, mar lad fós ceapann tú gorta a bhí ann, dún do bhéal 😭

People leaving shitty reviews on the kneecap movie for its message and just generally being in ireland/irish should just not be allowed to like lad you still think that there was a famine shut the fuck up 😭

[theperfectpints]

[heyyjudetheobscure]

okay but the THING about the Kneecap movie is that these guys are not originally actors, they love to talk about the months of acting classes they took to get ready for the movie in interviews, they're always so happy to shout out their acting coach by name (iirc it's Kieran Laggen? unclear on spelling tho).

but the translation scene at the police station is a fucking masterclass in performing different levels of communication, with three entirely different conversations happening at the same time, one in English, one in Irish, and one entirely non-verbally, this deep emotional exchange happening just with their faces -- man, that is what i call ACTING. there's the English conversation that's trying to keep the cop busy, trying to diffuse the tension just long enough to keep the plate spinning on the other conversations, and then under it, in Irish, there's this fairly intense and politically sophisticated back and forth about effective tactics and working inside vs. outside the system, collaboration vs. pragmatism.

and then under all THAT, on the nonverbal level, on the one side you see JJ falling in emotional, political LOVE, being inspired instead of feeling defeated about this thing that he cares about maybe for the first time in years, and feeling at the same time both protective of the person who's inspiring that feeling and slightly hostile about it because doesn't this guy know that caring like that, in this defiant, uncompromising way, isn't going to WORK, because if it worked maybe JJ would still be doing it, maybe he wouldn't feel this old and jaded in his fucking thirties already. and then on Mo Chara's side you see what starts out as this, not directionless because the direction is very clear, but this non-goal-oriented stubbornness in channeling his anger and frustration, this feeling of "i may be fucked but i don't have to make it easy for them" -- you see that feeling notice the crack in JJ and just kind of joyfully pry it open, because there's still POSSIBILITY here, he may not have the power in this situation but that doesn't mean he's powerLESS, and the sense that there's something here, in the energy between him and JJ that he can work with is this bright shard of SOMETHING, the hopeful energy they've both been missing before they start to spark off of each other.

all of which is to say that this movie is, uh. really good.