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A marker of the literary importance of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman is its influence on popular culture. This note considers the possible influence of O’Brien’s novel on Martin McDonagh’s film In Bruges (2008). The film’s themes of murder, penance, purgatory, hellish repetition and queer relations all resonate with The Third Policeman, and McDonagh’s possible homage to O’Brien’s book is made more likely by the fact that, at the time, one of McDonagh’s actors owned the film rights to O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.
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