Colin Farrell's pipecleaner eyebrows

I'm Irish. Plenty of Americans are, if only in fractional units. Those of us of Western European descent are furry people, especially when we're brunettes rather than blondes. This brings me to the current hot-bad-boy of celebrity, Mr.Colin Farrell, and his pipecleaner eyebrows. I recently sat through over 2 hours of his John-Smith-as-a-tortured-man rendition in the film The New World. At this point, I am still trying to decide whether or not he was cast for his "Hollywood hottie" draw to get people to see a piece on the Jamestown settlement (next year marks the 400th anniversary), or if Farrell really believes in what he did.
What I will say for the film is that it portrays Indians as warm, peaceable people with strong bonds to community and nature. Good. They are as beautiful as the nature preserve along the James River, where most of the piece was filmed. Farrell speaks very little, comes to appreciate his surroundings, and falls in love with Pocahontas. Who wouldn't? She's great! But wasn't she supposed to be 11 when she befriended him? My father tells me that these were different times, when a 30 year old man could have the right intentions for an underage girl. Either way, the look of sensitive torture and a desire for a better world is written all over Farrell's face, marked strongly by his expressive pipecleaner eyebrows.