Nope - that's just how writers are sometimes. My wife and a couple of our friends saw that, and worried that something had snapped inside of me. Once, back in 2012, I sat at a Starbucks for four hours and wrote a nearly 7,000-word blog post about Dante, in one long furious session. On the other hand, as a writer, I do understand how tormented one can be by the urge to create, and how being possessed by that spirit can make you do things that seem inhuman to others - or if not inhuman, then at least callous and weird. You sympathize with poor Padraig, who feels so cast off by his old friend, and for what? I found it difficult to sympathize with Colm. Colm can't make Padraig understand how serious he is about ending their friendship, so he tells Padraig that if he keeps coming around, he (Colm) will start chopping off his own fingers. Colm says he's tired of sitting around with Padraig, shooting the breeze, and getting nothing accomplished. It emerges that Colm believes that he will never be able to write memorable music if he keeps hanging out with trifling Padraig, who is a sweet soul, but limited. Nothing, says Colm I just don't like you any more. Padraig is a simple man, and can't understand what he's done wrong. In "Banshees," Gleeson plays Colm, an aging Irish fiddle player living on a remote island, who abruptly cuts off his friendship with his longtime pal Padraig (Colin Farrell).
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