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  • Zoe 2022-03-27 08:01:01

    Five Minutes of Heaven

    "Five Minutes of Heaven," a moment of "sweet, cold revenge." In 2009, the film "Five Minutes in Heaven," which won the director and screenwriter awards at the Sundance Film Festival, told a revenge story with a simple plot.
     
        The film begins in flashbacks, in the violent 1970s Northern Ireland...

  • Lilliana 2022-03-27 08:01:01

    "Five Minutes in Heaven"

    A simple story, how a foolish shooting 33 years ago, the perpetrator and the victim's brother wandered in search of redemption and self-rescue. Forgiveness is the most powerful form of revenge. This seemingly stalwart ideal has found a footnote here.

    Oliver Hirschbiegel's "fatal visit" to...

  • Marques 2022-03-28 09:01:14

    Sisberg's narrative style is as plain as boiling water in "The Destruction of an Empire", the procrastination at the end greatly reduces the film, and Griffin's inner monologue pretends to be a tone. Compared to "The Destruction of an Empire", this movie is really,,,

  • Annette 2022-03-27 09:01:23

    In fact, they are all victims of society. They are short and precise, and in the end I feel quite relieved.

Five Minutes of Heaven quotes

  • Alistair Little: [to interviewer] Guilty if I laugh. Guilty if I drink. Guilty if I forget. How to get through a day. What to do in it. I wake up, I go out. But where to go? He's always there. In my head. And I don't know where to go. Where to put yourself after it all. It's the same for everyone. Some of us have found an answer. He's killed a few Catholics in his time. and now he's killing his own. Some protection thing to control the estate. Released after the Good Friday Agreement, he's on top of the world again, still living it, just like he always was, with his mates watching his back, breathing in the scent of his victories.

    Alistair Little: If I had gone with him then, just said yes to him then... That's all I had to do, just tell him I was in. I know that isn't my answer, but what *is* my answer, you know? I sit in meeting rooms all over the world and I help men to live with what they've done to a wife, a child, a stranger, a neighbor - how to live with that act of violence. That's, you know, always there inside us. But I can't help myself. Sometimes I feel that this preacher is just the man I've become so that I can cheat my way through my life.

  • Alistair Little: Get rid of me, Joe, so that when you wake up in the morning, it's not me's in your head, it's your daughters. Don't give them me. Go home and tell them that you've killed me off. That I'm gone, forever. I'm nothing. Nothing. Go home and tell them that and live your life for them.