You don’t have enough Irish-language hip-hop in your life. That’s just a simple fact. But thankfully, Netflix has added the most interesting and unique music biopic of the year to help fill in that gap for you.
Kneecap follows the semi-mythical origins of the Irish-language rap group of the same name. The film starts out centering on two teenagers, Liam and Naoise, living in Belfast in the late 2010s. Naoise’s father, Arlo (Michael Fassbender), a former IRA member who went into hiding, taught the boys Irish at a young age, but while he did it to preserve some sense of national identity in the boys, they mostly use it to stick it to any authority they can find. Somewhere in the middle of all their teenage shenanigans they run into a music teacher named JJ, who finds out that Liam writes songs and suggests the three of them form a
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