A prime year for cinematic donkeys: That’s one way to remember 2022.
“Prime” does not mean “kind.” Jenny, the wee miniature companion of Colin Farrell’s character in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” provides reliable emotional support for a lonely soul, at least until Jenny meets a fate befitting a Martin McDonagh tale of woe. In “Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Östlund’s black comedy now streaming, a donkey meets an even grislier fate, thanks to hungry survivors of a luxury cruise ship disaster.
“Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!” wrote the poet Robert Burns. Man’s inhumanity to donkeys can beat those numbers any day.
