Garage the film - bar scene

It just breaks me old heart to see them lads shything me old boy Josie! Where I come from in Bealadangan we show respect to a lad like that! So it is!

While it is exaggerated for the movie this scene is basically a true representation of the kind of thing that goes on every day in small town Ireland. What makes it particularly chilling, not to mention accurate, is that while the men outwardly project a harmless "just having a laugh" veneer of civility just under the surface is an intense viciousness and will to do serious harm-to utterly destroy another person from the inside out. An extreme form of passive aggression that is uniquely Irish.

Mind if I take your answer down? You pretty much summed up the entire movie for me.

Poor Josie, i felt so sorry for him in that movie and that scene.

yes man!

It would have been better if somebody gave him some pussy...

i didnt smile or laugh for days after watching this movie.
really is beautiful though.
tho i wudnt say this attitude and cruelty is specific to ireland at all as people are saying... just anywhere where conformity and convention is valued above all else.
and if people want to generalise nations then id say the irish were some of the friendliest people in the world, that coming from an english person, with irish heritage.
i go there often and meet wonderful new people every time.

fuck this movie really rips me open. josie is cool as shit, how could anyone give him grief?

I have to agree with metal1313 that's complete and utter bullshit. I'm from a small irish villiage and this is not the norm but it does happen as it does all over the world. And every time it does happen is by ignorant, cruel fucking bastards. The above isn't taking the piss, it's vicious, and i know we're known for our dark humour and self deprecation but is somthing else altogether. The movie anyway is a classic, extremely depressing but must see

thats bullshit. the way those two act when josie is there is cruel and wrong. making a mans life a misery for their own entertainment. of course we all know what happens to josie at the end of the movie.