50 Movie Death Scenes That Left You TRAUMATISED
18. The Little Boy - In Bruges
In Bruges represents the first collaboration between Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and director Martin McDonagh, something that would later be added to by The Banshees of Inisherin, and it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that this film may be pinnacle of cinematic dark comedy.
It is genuinely hilarious from start to finish, but the themes of death and suicide are about as dark as it could get. The epitome of this is what happens before the events of the story even take place.
The film kicks off with Ken and Ray (Gleeson and Farrell) arriving in Bruges, with the story unfolding from there. The two were contract killers, and were sent to Belgium to lay low after a job went wrong. This was Ray's first contract after being brought into the operation by Ken, and would also turn out to be his last.
Ray was to kill a priest, played by Ciarán Hinds, which he accomplished. However, one of the bullets passed straight through the target and caught an innocent little boy in the head, killing him instantly. The image of the young man lying dead is tragic, and difficult to forget in no small part thanks to how it affected Ray, regardless of how funny the rest of the movie is.