Some movies are Irish. “Kneecap” is Ireland. From its self-conscious open blasting viewers in the face with images from the country’s fabled Troubles to its raucous encore, this film intends to demolish standard Irish imagery with a sonic blowtorch.
Writer-director Rich Peppiatt energetically captures the state of a nation still disagreeing with itself after 1998’s Good Friday Agreement.
At a moment in which nationalism is on the rise across the globe as a tool of domination and subjugation, it’s refreshing to see a tale focused on the ideology’s unifying potential to save an endangered heritage.
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