[bdz]

Contrary to everyone I think it was pretty mediocre. The significance of the book is barely covered and the contents of it are not mentioned at all. The story itself is dancing around the “message of the book” and how it prevails over everything (see the allegory with the abbey’s wall) but somehow they just never say it’s the four Gospels of the New Testament which are the most important texts of Christianity. If you don’t know what the Book of Kells _really is_ then what’s left from the film itself? Not so much just a generic fantasy story.

[noufalibrahim]

Yes. As someone who practices Western calligraphy, I expected a lot more about the book from the movie. It was mostly style kind of fable with the book as a prop.

[fullstop]

Have you played Pentiment?

[AStonesThrow]

I took it to describe a more expansive history of Irish spirituality, how neopaganism is recovering the legends and traditions that Irish diaspora took with them to the rest of the world, or perhaps were forgotten across generations. How Ireland emerges as a post-Christian society, but remains embattled with culture wars and difficult relations with the UK.

The Gaeltacht today is not unlike that little monastic fortress at Kells.