DISQUS

_Christopher_M · 7 months ago

I saw this last year..it was ok but it was no In The Name of The Father,,,

Loukas · 7 months ago

The movie will also leave you speachless.

jack2jack · 7 months ago

When we left the theatre, everyone had tears in their eyes.

TDC · 7 months ago

Awesome movie - Fassbender is a phenomenal actor! See this movie.

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alex · 7 months ago

Saw the film in Telluride last year with McQueen Q&A. This film stands out as one of the finest films I saw in 2008. Sadly overlooked by the Oscars.

Ned Bert · 7 months ago

Please please tell me that comments such as speechless refers to film making and not subject. Sand was never the great orator that the ten minute canteen scene portrays. That waste of time should have been used to show the effect that the prison guards murder had on the witnesses to his brutal slaying.

The shooting of a man in the back of the head is the "Christians" equivalent to the barbaric beheading of the Islamic extremists, except the parents and friends do not get to witness the slaying first hand.

McQueen tried to put his art background into the film and failed, the slaying of the horse cliche was so tired and reminiscent of the ex iRA commander now deputy first minister of N.Ireland, comments on the loss of civilians as collateral damage . Some 3000 lives lost the majority murdered by the IRA, they murdered more Catholics then the other sides involved in N.Ireland.

Putting N.Ireland, like the sick horse, down for its own good simply did not work, it was a pity McQueen did not pick up on that point but instead allowed the old rhetoric to guide his directors hand.

He failed to understand the speech Sands made, and the curse that he put upon the future generations, he did not call for peace and reconciliation but for future generations to come onto the streets and continue the slaying and reasons for divisions. Echo's of which are seen in the recent slayings of the policeman and soldiers and attempted murder of the oh so dangerous pizza delivery men. One of which comes from Poland.

The perpetrators of the slayings political wing has less than 1% of the populations support, Sands legacy to the Ireland is dying out. Peace is a threat to his followers as our younger generations born post ceasefire or Good Friday agreement, want to live in harmony with their respective neighbours.

So much for the putting down of the sick animal that N.Ireland was, McQueen failed to portray the legacy of Sands in an objective manner and the question is why, did his ex terrorists advisors influence his artistic decisions.

Hunger, typical example of how many directors approach the Irish "troubles", they have an obligation to do better.