![]() Many years ago, Lee used to live in the same town as Joe. However, Lee strongly opposes to the idea and refuses to move back to Manchester-by-the-Sea. During this period, Lee stays in Joe’s house and watches over Patrick.ĭuring a meeting with Joe’s attorney, Lee learns that his brother has nominated him to become Patrick’s guardian. Since the ground has become too hard in the cold winter, Lee has to wait until spring to bury his brother. After hearing the devastating news, Lee drives back to his home town in Manchester-by-the-Sea to arrange his brother’s funeral and personally deliver the news to his nephew: Patrick Chandler. One day, Lee receives a call: his brother Joe has passed away. Lee is currently working as a janitor and he lives all by himself. Manchester by the Sea (2016) – Plot SummaryĪ man by the name of Lee Chandler resides in a small apartment in Quincy, Massachusetts. I think this sort of dual-story was intended by the writers, if you look up the Yeats poem that is quoted at the beginning of the film, you will see that it is about a child turning to fantasy because the heartache and trouble of the world is too much for him to bear or to understand: Stolen Child, by W.B.This post includes a brief plot summary, an explanation about the ending of the film Manchester by the Sea (2016) and a relationship analysis between Lee Chandler and Patrick Chandler. Ben turns to fantasy as a way to cope with his mother's death, forgive his sister for what he sees as taking his mother away from him, and awake his father from his grief of living in the past. Macha tried to ease her son's inconsolable grief in much the same way that Ben's grandmother tries to help her son end his grief by showing him that living in the lighthouse is surrounding himself in the past and its sadness. Macha the witch is Ben's grandmother, Seanachai is the ferryman, Machaleer (the Giant) is Ben's father. All of the folklore is a parallel of Ben's life. I believe that the mother died in childbirth and that is why she never returned. However, because she's a Deenashee, she's still alive in a way, although diminished like all the other fairies. In short, my personal explanation is that she's dead, at least to the human world. ![]() It's only after Ben starts calling her that she wakes up. She's asleep while she's interacting with Saoirse. Now, when Bronagh reappears, her eyes are shut. Fairies are connected with ghosts in a lot of folklore. The whole story is a metaphor centered around a family with a deceased parent. So I don't think she was being cruel at all. In that way, the movie's following the example of the folktale. In the various versions of the selkie tale, when the selkie makes her inevitable return to the sea, she never returns. For whatever reason, after that, she could not come back to the land ever again. But her daughter turned out to be a selkie, and for Saoirse's safety Bronagh apparently had to give birth in the water. Why she started a family with Conor: Her first child was human, so maybe she thought there was a good chance all of her children would be the same way. ![]() Maybe that's why Bronagh never sang that way. When Saoirse sings her song, that frees them, but it also means that they must leave our world, and that includes Bronagh. For some reason, before this point it was all right for fairies to live in the human world and even intermarry with humans. When Saoirse frees them, they look larger and more alive, and they immediately headed for their true home, another world called Tír na nÓg. The Deenashee are diminished and trapped by a world that no longer believes in them. I had to think about it for a while.īeing "not of this world": Bronagh is a fairy, and the fairies/Deenashee are explicitly separate from humans, except for Saoirse, who's half human. That part didn't sit quite right with me either.
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