Thursday, 1 November 2012

In Bruges

In Bruges is a dark comedy/thriller about a pair of hitmen, Ken (Brendan Gleeson), the old experienced veteran, and Ray (Colin Farrell) is an energetic and childish young rookie. Ray ends up botching his very first job pretty bad, and the two get instructions to hide out in a small Belgian town called Bruges. Ken is in love with all the beautiful sights and sounds of the city, while Ray sees it as the crappiest place on the planet. For most of the film, Ray is just portrayed as this kid in a man's body, not seeming to dwell too much on the horrible thing he's done to land them in Bruges in the first place, but by the end you can see just how much it has screwed him up on the inside. Colin Farrell is brilliant in this role, and I believe that's probably because that's what he's naturally like, and Brendan Gleeson shows just how good he is at being characters other than Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter.


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