Technology’s facilitation of this vitriolic slandering would seem to warrant a Black Mirror-esque allegorical approach, but McDonagh chooses the opposite direction, away from high-concept sci-fi scope and towards a quaint rural Southern town, where it seems the be-all and end-all of authority is the local sheriff’s department. In current times the public sphere could be recognised as existing most fervently on platforms like Twitter and Facebook, where keyboard warriors, egomaniacs and trolls can hurl abuse safe in the knowledge that their ignorance won’t be swayed. The unabashed vitriol of Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges (2008) and Seven Psychopaths (2012) finds a perfect habitation in an emblematic story of anger, frustration and communication breakdown, which allegorises the often ferocious opposing rhetorics surrounding current affairs.
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