The Banshees of Inisherin · written by Martin McDonagh · 2022

Padraic visits his parents’ grave and remembers them as nice.

Scene 74 of 174 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Padraic

Act oneAct two

Begins 48 min into a 1:35 film

The story so farBefore scene 74

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.

Scenes 1–14
Padraic inhabits an easy routine of animals, home, pub, and daily companionship with Colm.
Scenes 15–40
Colm’s rejection exposes Padraic’s dependence on the friendship and raises the possibility that his easy manner is part of the problem.
Scenes 41–50
Padraic asks the priest to put in a word; Colm then gives Padraic a concrete threat against further contact.
Scene 69
Padraic argues that ordinary kindness and remembered family matter as much as lasting art, directly contesting Colm’s values.
Just before
Scene 71
Rain falls around Padraic’s house as his animals sleep in the barn and a cock crows; Padraic wakes inside.
Scene 72
Padraic wakes hungover and notices Siobhan is gone.
Scene 73
Siobhan collects a letter from the shopkeeper, who has steamed it open.
Scene 74
This scene

74EXT. GRAVEYARD - MORNING 73 *

Trudging up the wild graveyard that overlooks the sea, wildflowers in hand, towel still around his head, still sick, he gets to his parents grave, a plain stone, for Micheal & Bridie Suilleabhain; who both died 5 April 1915.

PADRAIC

Ye were nice.

As he lays the flowers against the stone he vomits slightly on the grass of the grave, then cleans it away with his shoe.

PADRAIC (CONT'D)

I’m sorry Mammy.

He sighs at length, then his gaze is drawn to a boat that’s heading from Inisherin to the mainland, on the back of which, in dress uniform, stands PEADAR, staring back at PADRAIC...