‘We all have the capacity to influence others.’ Photo: Brendan Gleeson (left) and Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

‘Does posterity remember kindness?’

Human kind: Martyn Kelly answers a cinematic question

‘Does posterity remember kindness?’

by Martyn Kelly 27th January 2023

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?’