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Powerful but not aggressive
Reinhold 2022-04-19 09:02:21
A stylized work that is more realistic than allegorical and visually powerful compared to The Immortal. The film can be divided into three parts: the resistance and conflict between prisoners and the police and the politics they represent, their weapons are limited, the destruction of the environment and their own coercion (killing); Sands' spiritual confession; Sands' physical death process. The sympathy of the body and the praise of the spirit, the contradiction between the two was placed in the political dispute between Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom, which reminds people of that tragic history and is also an ancient continuation of this contradiction. The penetration and balance of time make the film powerful, but not radical.
Extended Reading
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Father Dominic Moran: So what happened to your eye, Bobby?
Bobby Sands: What?
Father Dominic Moran: Did you get a dig for yourself? Your eye.
Bobby Sands: Difference of opinion.
Father Dominic Moran: Mmm. How's the other fella?
Bobby Sands: Oh, a lot worse. Believe me.
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Bobby Sands: I always felt that thief next to Jesus got off lightly.
Father Dominic Moran: Ah, but he recognized his sins.
Bobby Sands: Did he though?
Father Dominic Moran: Aye. Said as much.
Bobby Sands: When you're hung from a cross you're gonna say anything. Jesus offers him a seat next to his daddy in a place called paradise you're always gonna put your hand up and have a piece of that.
Father Dominic Moran: Aye. Even when it's nailed to your cross.