It’s war at this year’s Oscars
War rumbles through the nominated films—even some that seem to be about other things
Tomorrow, on the mainland, “the Free State lads are executing a couple of the IRA lads,” says a brutish policeman on Inisherin, a fictional island off Ireland’s west coast. It is 1923 and civil war rages on. “Or is it the other way around?” Whoever is executing whom, he is heading over to lend a hand. “For six bob and a free lunch, I don’t care.”
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “This means war”
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