‘We all have the capacity to influence others.’ Photo: Brendan Gleeson (left) and Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Human kind: Martyn Kelly answers a cinematic question
‘Does posterity remember kindness?’
There is a scene in The Banshees of Inisherin (the Golden Globe winner, tipped for Oscar success), where one character, played by Brendan Gleeson, asks another: ‘Do you know who we remember for how nice they was in the seventeenth century?’