Warning: Contains spoilers for The Banshees of Inisherin!While Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin isn’t the director’s most straightforward work, some background on its period setting makes the movie easier to understand. Historical comedy The Banshees of Inisherin sees Colin Farrell's good-natured, but dim-witted Pádraic accidentally starting a rapidly escalating, darkly comical war of wills with his former best friend, Brendan Gleeson’s taciturn musician Colm. However, The Banshees of Inisherin becomes harder to decode when the movie’s focus strays outside Pádraic and Colm’s feud. The Banshees of Inisherin setting did wonders for the film, as the underseen 2022 film scooped up a Golden Globe for Best Film — Musical or Comedy, and an impressive nine Oscar nominations.