2. Pádraic calls on the cottage of his drinking buddy, Colm, to find his old friend has stopped speaking to him. He doesn't take it well, and keeps pushing Colm for an explanation. What reason does Colm give Pádraic for his sudden change in behaviour?
From Quiz The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Answer:
He just doesn't like him anymore.
Pádraic Súilleabháin leads a simple life. He lives with his sister, Siobhán, on the island of Inisherin. He tends to his animals, and sells milk to the local shopkeeper (and town gossip). And each day at two o'clock, he calls on Colm Doherty and they drink the day away. One spring day in 1923, Pádraic calls on Colm to find him sitting silently in his cottage, smoking and ignoring his calls to head to the pub. Everyone he meets finds the behaviour odd but they attempt to rationalise it ("Have ye been rowin'?"). His sister jokes, "Maybe he just doesn't like you no more."
Pádraic finally catches up with Colm, who is still giving him the cold shoulder, and corners him outside the pub. "Now, if I've done something to ya just tell me what I've done to ya, and if I've said something to ya, maybe I said somethin' when I was drunk and I've forgotten it, but I don't think I said somethin' when I was drunk and I've forgotten it, but if I did then tell me what it was and I'll say sorry for that too," he says. "With all me heart, I'll say sorry. Just stop running away from me like some fool of a moody schoolchild." Colm listens to Pádraic in stony silence. "But you didn't say anything to me. And you didn't do anything to me," Colm says matter-of-factly. "I just don't like you no more." A devastated Pádraic watches helplessly as Com finishes his pint and walks away.