The Banshees of Diversity

Do you know what a banshee is? I honestly thought it was some type of monkey. But it's actually a crazy Irish woman. Like an Irish witch.

I wonder how many things we think we know but actually don't.

Dumb people think they know everything. Smart people know they know nothing.

I don't watch many movies. I don't watch much TV at all. But, when I do it's the reality TV trinity: Jeopardy, UFC or First 48. 

However, last night I decided to not pickle my liver, and opted for a movie instead. The problem with me watching movies is that I have really bad ADHD, so it's hard to stare at a TV screen for 2 hours unless it's something I'm really interested in. In fact, there are a couple of movies that I've always wanted to watch, but won't even attempt them because they are 3 hours long.

Is that weird?

So I scoured the plethora of scribbles on the various pieces of paper which clutter my desk in search of some movie recommendations that I wrote down, and I was only able to find two: Nocturnal Animals and The Banshees of Inisherin. 

I had already watched Nocturnal Animals, and as much as I appreciated the artistic imagery in the first 5 minutes of the movie, there are only a handful of movies that I can watch more than once due to my severe ADHD, and Nocturnal Animals isn't one of them.

So that left me watching The Banshees of Inisherin.

As you can tell from my movie selections, I only watch weird movies. This is a sign of normalcy. Weird people watch normal movies, and normal people watch weird movies. It's that opposites attract thing that Paula Abdul sang about in the 80's.

The movie was odd. That along with the lack of diversity made it worthy of watching.

There were literally no non-whites in the movie. Seriously, when was the last time you watched anything on TV that didn't force diversity on the viewers.

Diversity in the form of entertainment is okay, I guess, as long it's realistic and organic. But the entertainment industry has always been obsessively anti-white.

Nonetheless, the plot of the movie is based on a couple of drinking buddies who have a falling out. One doesn't like the other anymore, and the unliked one won't accept it. The one who wants to be left alone, tells the other one that if he doesn't leave him alone, he is going to start cutting his own fingers off, which are valuable to him because his legacy depends on his violin playing. Without his fingers, he can't play music.

Spoiler alert: The unliked one won't leave him alone, so he cuts all of his fingers off and throws them at the man's door who won't quit talking to him. The unliked man's pet miniature donkey eats the fingers, chokes and dies. This makes the unliked man furious, so he burns the fingerless man's house down. 

The End.