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The Quiet Girl
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The Quiet Girl, or An Cailín Ciúin in Irish, is a 2022 coming of age drama film, directed by Colm Bairead and based on the novella Foster by Claire Keegan, published in 2010. Most of the film's dialogue is in Irish, with English being occasionally spoken.The film centers on the titular protagonist Cáit, a shy and lonely nine year old girl who lives in Ireland during the 1980s in a rural community with her parents and siblings. Cáit has no friends or close companions, and her family is also indifferent towards her. Her parents choose to send her to spend the summer with her mother's cousin Eibhlín and her husband Sean Cinnsealach (Kinsella), who are farmers in a different county. Over the course of the time she spends with her new guardians, Cáit begins to enjoy love and security for possibly the first time in her life, and grows close to both Sean and Eibhlín, who grow to love and care for Cáit as if she were their own child. However, Cáit also discovers some painful truths about her new family.The film currently holds the record as the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time, and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, becoming the first Irish film to be nominated in the category's history. | |
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Title Drop: One of the neighbors says this of Cáit. | |
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Apology Gift: After scolding Cáit harshly for going out of his sight and worrying him while he was working, Sean silently leaves a cookie on the kitchen table for Cáit to have and walks away, saying sorry in a very subtle way with the treat. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Cait's da's response when Cait returns home to restart schooling is to complain that Sean and Eibhlin didn't do anything. You know, the couple who took care of Cait for an entire summer at their own expense. | |
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Foreshadowing: Multiple examples, including: When Cáit's da drives away after neglecting to take her suitcase out of the boot, leaving her with only the clothes she's wearing, Cáit is given some boy's clothes that are way too big for her, but that she has to make do with. She later learns that they belonged to the Kinsella's son, who drowned in a slurry pit years ago. Eibhlín tells Cáit early on in the film that "there are no secrets in this house". This seems to be the case, but eventually Cáit eventually finds out from a neighbor that Sean and Eibhlín's son died years ago in an accident, and that the pet dog was partly responsible for the accident. Eibhlín introduces Cáit to the well that is the source of the household's water, and warns her that she must be careful when drawing water from it. Later, Cáit falls in and nearly drowns when retrieving water by herself, in an incident that is horribly reminiscent of how the Kinsella's son died. However, she survives but catches a cold from the exposure. | |
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Abusive Parents: Cait's parents are at best distant and harried, and at worst are emotionally abusive. Cait's da openly complains about her just being another mouth to feed to the people he's dumping her on. | |
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Gossipy Hens: During a wake, one of the townswomen volunteers to take a restless Cait to their home to wait for Sean and Eibhlin. Unfortunately for Cait, she's a blabbermouth who disdains practically everyone, and drops the bombshell that Sean and Eibhlin have a dead son. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Sean and Eibhlín, in spite of the fact that their son died years ago in an accident. | |
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Shout-Out: A very discreet one to the famous "Run, Forrest, run!"" scene from Forrest Gump, when Sean asks Cáit to run and check the letterbox. The cinematography also is using slow-motion, and Cáit experiences a similar form of freedom. | |
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No Name Given: Cáit's parents are never given names of their own, and are named in the credits as Mum and Da. | |
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Awful Wedded Life: Cáit's parents clearly do not get along and do not love each other very much, and it is lightly implied that their relationship may be abusive. | |
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Shrinking Violet: Cáit, unsurprisingly. | |
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Jerkass Cait's da is more interested in gambling and drinking than being a proper father, and actively ignores Cait. When Cait's parents are discussing what to do with her because they can't afford another mouth to feed when another baby's on the way, he dismisses Cait's ma's side of the family as good-for-nothings. The nosy neighbor who volunteers to take Cait from the wake. She calls Cait a 'dope' repeatedly, crassly complains about Sean and Eibhlin behind their backs when she was friendly-like with them at the wake, mocks Cait's outfit, and casually reveals Sean and Eibhlin had a son who drowned in a slurry pit with all the sympathy of a bored teenager. | |
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