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| Album: | Breakfast on Pluto: Music From The Motion Picture |
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| Artist: | Various Artists |
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| Label: | Milan Records |
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Breakfast On Pluto
Patrick McCabe
With wonderful delicacy and subtle insight and intimation, McCabe creates Mr. Patrick “Pussy” Braden, the enduringly and endearingly hopeful hero(ine) whose gutty survival and yearning quest for love resonate in and drive the glimmering, agonizing narrative in which the Troubles are a distant and immediate echo and refrain.
As
Breakfast on Pluto opens, her ladyship, resplendent in housecoat and head scarf, reclines in Kilburn, London, writing her story for the elusive psychiatrist Dr. Terence, paring her fingernails as she reawakens the truth behind her life and the chaos of long-ago days in a city filled with hatred. Twenty years ago, she escaped her hometown of Tyreelin, Ireland, fleeing her foster mother, Whisker—prodigious Guinness-guzzler, human chimney—and her mad household (endless doorstep babas!), to begin a new life in London. There, in blousey tops and satin miniskirts, she plies her trade, often risking life and limb among the flotsam and jetsam who fill the bars of Piccadilly Circus (“You want love? That what you want, orphaned boy without a home? Then die…
Breakfast on Pluto
Neil Jordan
Both epic and intimate,
Breakfast on Pluto uses the life of Patrick “Kitten” Braden (Cillian Murphy,
Batman Begins), a queer orphan boy, to explore the hidden worlds that lie beneath so-called “normal” society—the subcultures of homosexuals, the Irish Republican Army, and prostitutes. At odds with his conservative Irish town, Patrick rebels with the fearlessness of someone whose life feels worthless. When he leaves for London, where he hopes to find his mother, he joins a touring rock band, is almost murdered, becomes assistant to a magician…
