![]() ![]() My Left Foot is very precise in its attention and its intention. McAnally gets gray, only My Left Foot isn’t really set up for gray. Because there’s also the unseen scary bits regarding McAnally. Yes, there’s something about the expectation, both for the narrative and O’Conor’s performance–but also presents the characters from a particular angle, which tends to work a lot better for Fricker than McAnally. But it also means the audience knows something the characters don’t. Mom Brenda Fricker doesn’t think so, but McAnally’s a loud (sometimes scary) drunk and there are the six other kids to think about. And he’s got the big material to get through.ĭad Ray McAnally thinks Day-Lewis is catastrophically cognitively impaired. O’Conor plays a very different role too in his maybe twenty minutes–he’s got to play younger Day-Lewis from the first scene when he’s not even a tween. Since Day-Lewis has a beard and a distinct manner in the present-day stuff, when he’s a teenager and before he’d ever gotten any rehabilitation or treatment, it’s a very different role. ![]() Hugh O’Conor plays Brown until he’s seventeen or eighteen, then Day-Lewis takes over. There’s the present–kind of glorified bookends–when Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a successful adult and flirts with his nurse (Ruth McCabe)–and then the past, which recounts Brown growing up poor, with cerebral palsy, in 1940s Dublin. ![]()
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