The Banshees of Inisherin · written by Martin McDonagh · 2022

Padraic follows Colm across walls and fields, then loses him.

Scene 12 of 174 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Padraic

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Begins 4 min into a 1:35 film

The story so farBefore scene 12

In 1923 on Inisherin, Padraic tries to restore his friendship with Colm after Colm suddenly cuts him off, but Colm’s escalating demand for solitude draws their neighbors into a costly feud.

Scene 1
Padraic’s contented walk through Inisherin’s familiar landscape establishes his small, settled world.
Just before
Scene 9
Jonjo notices Colm’s absence; Padraic decides to try him again.
Scene 10
Padraic sees Colm’s chair empty through the window, knocks, and finds the door opening.
Scene 11
Padraic spots Colm walking away through the telescope.
Scene 12
This scene

12EXT. LANEWAYS - DAY

PADRAIC tries to catch up to the distant COLM along the winding, high-walled lanes, but COLM is going at some pace.

PADRAIC takes the next few corners as quickly as he can, but as he comes on a long straight stretch he realises COLM is nowhere to be seen.

PADRAIC

Is he scaling the walls or what is he

up to?

PADRAIC climbs a wall and sees COLM scaling a wall into a distant field, in which there’s a bull.

PADRAIC (CONT'D)

He is scaling the walls. Well feck ya

so! Although be careful of that bull,

Colm...

COLM threatens the bull with a clenched fist and the bull backs sheepishly away.

PADRAIC (CONT'D)

Oh, okay...

COLM scales another wall and on through the next field.

PADRAIC (CONT'D)

Where’s he going to? There’s nowhere to go

to.