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Sorry, Tár is not the intellectual movie of the year, Banshees is. Tár is just a straightforward meditation on "is it about art or power?" The subtext of The Banshees of Inisherin completely escaped you guys. It's about Pádraic, metaphorically an animal, becoming human and how humans schematize reality so as to induce conflict, how we create reasons, identities, categories from nothing that become casus belli. It's brilliant

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