This movie with it's brilliant landscape & fine actors was at times, dark, moody & had laughable moments, until you realise it's just about life & death& how it is around the corner, lurking in some cases waiting to take you. The changes that happen, some controlled, some uncontrolled, dealing with what you are given & making the best of it or forcing change & seeing what that brings you were all a part of this well written, filled with metaphors movie & it was when I went home & tried to explain it to someone else, that I realised just how much I got from it. Don't go expecting "In Bruges" but, go see it if you want to understand the connection of life/death/human behaviours in a time where Ireland was struggling with herself. Great acting from a fine cast as well.