[kiernanmcgowan]

Its a truly incredible film, but has a few subtleties that may be hard to catch at first glance. Pay attention to the colors that people are wearing (green, orange, red, and blue) for the deeper subtext of relationships of the political situation in Ireland.

I may be missing a detail or two, and would happily be corrected, but for the curious:

- Green = Catholics / IRA supporters

- Yellow/Orange = Protestants

- Red = English

- Blues = Anglo-Irish Treaty supporters (?)

edit: formatting

[fsckboy]

do you know this definitively? was it in the book?

I'm asking because I picked up a hitchhiker way back when that was an ordinary thing to do, and he was a vocational school grad, but told me this whole thing about how the Wizard of Oz was a parable about the gold standard (follow the yellow bricks to the Emerald City) vs greenback dollar, with the cowardly lion (Dept of Defence) and the Tin Man (midwest industrial might) and Scarecrow (agriculture), pitting the witches of the North and South and East and West... you get the picture. It's a very tight theory, and I was shocked I hadn't learned this in my college track/college career.

and I believed it for the next decades till I found out: it wasn't true.

So I ask you again, is this something you know you know? I only have time left to believe one new thing and I need to be sure of it

[kiernanmcgowan]

> do you know this definitively? was it in the book?

I can't really speak to this, which is why I have a (?) around the meaning of Blue. I can say that green, orange, and red have pretty obvious connections, especially given the context of the film taking place during the Irish Civil War, which directly followed the Irish War of Independence (from England, who wore red in battle).

If it helps assuage your fear, you can take a look at the meaning of the colors of the Irish flag to see context for green and orange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ireland#Symbolism

[throw0101b]

For the curious:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_T...

[SideburnsOfDoom]

NB, the background to the film is this fratricidal conflict circa 1922: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Civil_War

Not the sectarian "troubles" and IRA, circa the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles

[messe]

Interesting, I'm going to have to rewatch and see if that's the case.