#kneecap movie

[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.

[rickchung]

Kneecap (dir. Rich Peppiatt).

[The] controversial West Belfast hip-hop trio, [...] known for rapping republican lyrics in their native Irish language, star in their own titular biographical film about their rise to fame and infamy. Set in 2019, [...] Peppiatt directs the plainly titled Kneecap with an energetic, riotous verve to its provocative, explicitly anti-UK material of rebellion.

[crescentcampbell]

I'm just gonna leave this here.

[cinelestial]

First film poster for Rich Peppiatt’s KNEECAP

Releasing in theaters August 2nd

[gordonstanheight]

i don’t have a dog in this year’s oscars fight bc i haven’t either seen or been super impressed with a lot of the shortlisted films HOWEVER my full heart and soul and support is behind kneecap. like cmon who doesn’t love an underdog

[ohihopeicanchangethislater]

The new movie Skincare was great to go in blind, it's more than just a Hollywood drama. Also Kneecap is so much better than a typical music biopic.

Other theaters may have similar things, but my local AMC has what they call "Screen Unseen" every couple weeks where they screen a new movie a few weeks before it's release. All they tell you before is the rating and whether it's a horror movie or not, so that's as far as your expectations can go.

okay fun silly question because these are my favorite types of stories but what are your guys' favorite pieces of media that require the audience to go in blind? usually the synopsis is a diversion of some sort or there's just some killer plot twist that changes things (like the genre) significantly.

[jonathanmoya1955]

“Kneecap: A Riotous Rap Rebellion Rooted in Irish Identity”

Sony Pictures Classics MOVIE INFO: When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries and…

[celine-song]

Kneecap (2024) dir. Rich Peppiatt

[lostinmac]

Kneecap (2024)

Dir. Rich Peppiatt

[heyyjudetheobscure]

The thing about this is that they've said it, or something like it, several times, and they still keep getting interview questions that are like, so what was it like to remove the stage persona and be your REAL SELF on-screen?? And there's something so simultaneously endearing and scary about that, the way we're sort of conditioned to see photos and videos as "true" even as, like with this movie, there are so many visual and verbal cues in the text telling us: this is a myth, this isn't emotionally untrue but it's not FACTUAL, it's more than real, it's a story.

This is also such a cool and, I think, ballsy move to make at what's hopefully just the beginning of a career, because I don't think we really know almost anything more in terms of facts or identifying info about these guys than we did before the movie, but we have a really clear emotional thesis statement about their goals and their, as much as they don't seem to like this word getting associated with their work, politics. And right now, in the crumbling-Roman-empire era of twitter, hopefully moving into the backswing reaction against the expectation of all access at all times to the personal lives of any vaguely-public figure, this great big gift of a movie which, in a sense, does absolutely nothing to feed that prurient, parasocial hunger, it feels like what I want for a direction in terms of the relationship between audience and artists.

also, it's fun as shit.

(i keep trying to link the article and my clipboard is just fucked right now, but it's the LA Times article by Mark Olsen on Aug. 1)

alt text:

[“These characters represent where we come from and the people we grew up with,” explains Móglaí Bap. “So it’s not only our story, but it’s everybody’s stories. Like, half of my class, their parents would’ve been ex-IRA members. So it’s not necessarily always our personal story, but it is the collective story of Belfast.”

The group did not set out to become lightning rods of a movement to revive the use of the Irish language, which their headline-grabbing antics and instinctive flair have inadvertently turned them into. At first the band simply wanted to talk in the way they spoke to one another, among friends.]

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

Prediction: There will be a running joke throughout the entire movie in which characters keep commenting on how Shadow looks "just like" Sonic. Sonic will hotly deny this because they obviously look nothing alike. Shadow will take it as an insult at first ("How dare you compare me to that inferior hedgehog!"), but the nanosecond he realizes Sonic hates it so much he will jump on the bandwagon with the most childish glee he's ever had since Maria died.

At the end someone will finally say they look nothing alike, Sonic will shout "THANK YOU!" and finally feel validated, only for Shadow to immediately throw an arm over his shoulders and ask "What, you don't see the resemblance?" with the most infuriatingly smug grin possible.

[kaccvcate]

I highly recommend the movie Kneecap (2024) about the Irish hiphop group of the same name. This band writes their songs in Gaelic, and the movie focuses on the struggles they face trying to express themselves in their native language, which was outlawed by colonizers until recently. The soundtrack is phenomenal, it has a great sense of humor, and it has one of the most badass lines in any movie, "Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom." A philosophy to live by...

[aeolianblues]

I fucking love that Kneecap got picked up by Sony for this film, it’s the fucking funniest thing ever. Because Kneecap are just uncompromising, they’ll do exactly what they’ve always done, that’s what the film does too, and now Sony Classic Pictures is having to go along with putting out little promo clips of the Kneecap lads talking straight to the audience encouraging and explaining the Irish word for cocaine with tips on how to safely do it. And what can Sony say? Anything not touching on it cuts out like 60% of the film

[pianokantzart]

[whiteshipnightjar]

✨ sparkling in the night forever ✨

Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun (2024)

[anarchic-miscellany]

Review to follow, but: Rather than giving money to Hollywood, give your money to "Kneecap": the anarchic, debauched, drug fuelled punk ode to rebellion, independence, anti-authoritarianism, pushing back against gate keepers of culture, and fucking mayhem. All told through Irish hip hop. I'm a proud patriotic Irishman now. I have never been to Ireland.