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''The Guard'' is a 2011 English-language Irish comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.〔 〕 It is the most successful Irish film of all time in terms of Irish box-office receipts, overtaking ''The Wind that Shakes the Barley'' (2006) that previously held this status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='The Guard' Topples 'Barley' to Become No. 1 Indie Irish Film )〕 ==Plot== Gerry Boyle (Gleeson) is a Sergeant in the Garda Síochána, stationed in the Connemara Gaeltacht of western Ireland. He is crass, confrontational, and regularly indulges in alcohol, narcotics, and prostitutes while on duty. Despite this, Sgt. Boyle lives by a very strict ethical code and shows love and concern for his ailing mother, Eileen (Flanagan). Boyle joins his new subordinate, Garda Aidan McBride (Keenan), to investigate a murder in their jurisdiction, with evidence apparently pointing to an occult serial killer. Shortly after, Boyle attends a briefing by FBI Special Agent Wendell Everett (Cheadle). Agent Everett has been sent to liaise with the Garda in hunting down four Irish drug traffickers, led by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (Cunningham), who are believed to have arranged a seaborne shipment of cocaine worth an estimated one half billion American Dollars. To Everett's shock, Boyle recognises one of the men in Everett's slide show as the victim of the murder he and McBride had been investigating. As Boyle drives Everett to the crime scene, Garda McBride pulls over a speeding car driven by Sheehy and his lieutenants Clive Cornell (Strong) and Liam O'Leary (Wilmot). After Sheehy sadistically boasts that he knows all about him, Garda McBride is shot dead. Garda McBride's wife, Gabriela (Čas), reports her husband's disappearance to Boyle. A Croatian national, she explains that her marriage to Garda McBride was arranged so that she could gain an Irish visa. As her husband was secretly a homosexual, it also allowed him "to look respectable." Suspecting the worst, Boyle promises to look into it. The strait-laced Everett decides that he and Boyle should team up to track down Sheehy and his men. Unimpressed, Boyle announces that he has better things to do. Later, while Everett makes the rounds, he encounters Irish-speaking residents who refuse to answer him in English and the traditional Irish refusal to assist law enforcement, Boyle has a sexual encounter with two prostitutes (McElligott and Greene) at a hotel. On his drive back from the hotel, Boyle spots McBride's Garda car at a local "suicide hotspot" along the coast, but does not believe that McBride killed himself. Meeting Everett at a local bar, Boyle listens as Everett laments that law enforcement in Ireland is just like trying to investigate gang violence in Compton. Boyle notices a CCTV camera and remembers that the original suspect in the first murder claimed to be frequenting the very same establishment at the time of the killing. Looking over the footage from the time of the murder, they see that the suspect's alibi is valid – and a stunned Everett also spots Sheehy and Cornell at the bar at the same time. Meanwhile, Cornell delivers a bribe to Boyle's Garda superiors, who promise to divert manpower away from the shipment when it arrives in Spiddal. They warn, however, that Boyle "is too unpredictable" and will cause trouble for them. After brutally beating one of Boyle's favorite call girls, Sheehy arranges a meeting with him. Sheehy threatens to use Boyle's encounter with the two prostitutes to get him fired and then offers him a bribe. After expressing his hatred for "cunts who beat up on women", Boyle shocks Sheehy by contemptuously refusing the money. Tipped off by a young boy named Eugene (Lane), Boyle discovers a weapons cache hidden in a local bog by the Provisional IRA and arranges its return to them. The IRA man expresses shock that the cache is now missing an AK-47, a revolver, and a derringer. After acting insulted, Boyle is promised that the IRA will do him any favor he asks in return. After having her last wish to hear a live pub band fulfilled, Boyle's mother dies. Meeting at the bar again, Everett tells Boyle that Garda sources indicate Sheehy's shipment will be coming into County Cork and that he is leaving to investigate. Returning home, Boyle is confronted in his living room by O'Leary, who has been ordered by Sheehy to kill him. Holding the Sergeant at gunpoint and visibly enjoying himself, O'Leary boasts that Garda McBride was buried at sea and that "little fishies will have eaten him by now." The drugs will be landed in Spiddal that very night and the trio's Garda protectors have ordered all personnel to be far away. Much to O'Leary's amusement, Boyle begins scratching his groin. Believing that the Sergeant caught crabs from a prostitute, O'Leary quips that he has only himself to blame. To his shock, however, Boyle pulls out the derringer from the cache and fatally shoots O'Leary. As the gangster's life drains away, Boyle mocks his bottomless self-pity and calls Everett to tell him that the Cork lead is a decoy arranged by corrupt officers. As Everett drives to Spiddal, Boyle tells Gabriella, whom he now has feelings for, of her husband's murder. Although she clearly loves him, too, and begs him not to leave, Boyle insists that he needs to do so. As Gabriella dissolves into tears, Boyle drives towards Spiddal. As Sheehy's vessel is berthed and Sheehy's men unload the cocaine, Everett arrives and is horrified by Boyle's description of corruption in the Garda. Boyle laments that Sheehy’s corrupt Garda protectors will never forget or forgive what he is about to do. Therefore, he may have to disappear. Boyle arms himself with a revolver from the arms cache, and offers the AK-47 to Everett, telling him there is now only one way to bring the trio to justice. He urges Everett to give him covering fire as he moves to arrest Sheehy and Cornell. At first Everett balks at Boyle's plan, saying that for him to fire an illegal firearm in the middle of Ireland "will cause an international incident." He relents, and opens fire as Boyle – taking a flesh wound to the arm – shoots Cornell and leaps onto the boat in pursuit of Sheehy. As Everett’s gunfire sets the boat alight, Boyle shoots Sheehy and leaves him to burn alive in the main cabin as the boat explodes. The next day, a despondent Everett looks out over Galway Bay, believing Boyle to be dead. Eugene, standing nearby, mentions that Boyle was a good swimmer, having claimed to have been placed fourth at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, a claim that Everett had incredulously dismissed. A young photographer (Kinlan) comments that it would be easy enough to look up. The film then flashes back to Everett's comment that he couldn't decide whether Boyle was really dumb or really, really smart. Back in the present, Everett smiles to himself, having finally found the answer. The credits roll to John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane", hinting that Boyle survived and chose to leave Ireland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Guard (2011 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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