event Seven Psychopaths

Seven Psychopaths features psychopaths aplenty, but any other expectations raised by its ready-for-the-drive-in title should probably be left behind. The second feature from Irish playwright/filmmaker Martin McDonagh stars Colin Farrell as an Irish screenwriter named Martin laboring, through a haze of alcohol, on a screenplay called Seven Psychopaths. That’s the start, but hardly the end, of the film’s meta touches. As the film opens, Farrell has little more than the title and a life that, by apparent coincidence, has decided to start feeding him inspiration. There’s one obvious psychopath in the news, for instance, a masked killer who seems to limit his murders to those involved with organized crime. Hungry for inspiration, Farrell takes the detail and runs with it on the page as far as it will go. Turns out it isn’t far enough, but happily, at least for his screenplay, his life is on the verge of several more inspiring twists and turns.

Seven Psychopaths features psychopaths aplenty, but any other expectations raised by its ready-for-the-drive-in title should probably be left behind. The second feature from Irish playwright/filmmaker Martin McDonagh stars Colin Farrell as an Irish screenwriter named Martin laboring, through a haze of alcohol, on a screenplay called Seven Psychopaths. That’s the start, but hardly the end, of the film’s meta touches. As the film opens, Farrell has little more than the title and a life that, by apparent coincidence, has decided to start feeding him inspiration. There’s one obvious psychopath in the news, for instance, a masked killer who seems to limit his murders to those involved with organized crime. Hungry for inspiration, Farrell takes the detail and runs with it on the page as far as it will go. Turns out it isn’t far enough, but happily, at least for his screenplay, his life is on the verge of several more inspiring twists and turns.

Seven Psychopaths features psychopaths aplenty, but any other expectations raised by its ready-for-the-drive-in title should probably be left behind. The second feature from Irish playwright/filmmaker Martin McDonagh stars Colin Farrell as an Irish screenwriter named Martin laboring, through a haze of alcohol, on a screenplay called Seven Psychopaths. That’s the start, but hardly the end, of the film’s meta touches. As the film opens, Farrell has little more than the title and a life that, by apparent coincidence, has decided to start feeding him inspiration. There’s one obvious psychopath in the news, for instance, a masked killer who seems to limit his murders to those involved with organized crime. Hungry for inspiration, Farrell takes the detail and runs with it on the page as far as it will go. Turns out it isn’t far enough, but happily, at least for his screenplay, his life is on the verge of several more inspiring twists and turns.