Hunger is also a powerful fighting force

Margret 2022-03-21 09:02:23

The stench of the prison, the disgust, hatred and fear of the guards and IRA prisoners for each other, as well as the horrific sight of starvation and the hands of gods, make the movie-watching experience a nightmare. The film not only includes the bloody scenes of the military and police beating prisoners, but also does not forget to make a note of the Republican Army who assassinated the military and police. Throughout the protest, 10 prisoners starved to death and 16 wardens were killed. Mrs Thatcher, who only heard her voice and saw no one, seemed to be too tough. When Bobby Sands, who was starved to the shape of a devil, shaped like a skeleton and had festering skin, had hallucinations, the lonely and stubborn Belfast The young man has touched the heartstrings of countless audiences. Under the dual pressure of global public opinion and local law and order, Mrs. Thatcher made a tough compromise: she met the demands of the IRA prisoners and refused to recognize their political status. Regardless of your treatment, you are still criminals and terrorists, not political prisoners. The moral superiority that Bobby Sands won for the IRA around the world didn't last long, and the IRA's attacks on civilians were so outrageous that their superfan Gaddafi denounced: "Libya knows that legitimate revolutionary action has nothing to do with it. The difference between action against civilians and innocent people, this action is not legal.” Find out how Bobby Sands was able to bring starvation to the end, and why Mrs Thatcher was so inhumane to make her despise Prisoners become moral heroes, and they can rely on Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance: people devote themselves to something. at all costs.

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Extended Reading
  • Kristy 2022-01-03 08:01:32

    As a contemporary artist, Steve McQueen obviously chose a neutral approach in his film debut. It not only allows movies adapted from real historical events to have sufficient narrative and concrete gestures from the main body of the plot; but also uses the means of continuation of the old line of visual art to make the work form escape the general film style, and to some scenes. It does not explain and eliminates the tradition that runs through the protagonist of the plot, and makes the finished product present a certain degree of abstraction and ambiguity.

  • Jadon 2022-03-21 09:02:23

    how the body is used in art is a subject forever explored

Hunger quotes

  • 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.

  • Father Dominic Moran: [offering Sands a cigarette] Bit of a break from smokin' the Bible, eh?

    Bobby Sands: [agrees]

    Father Dominic Moran: Anyone work out which book is the best smoke?

    Bobby Sands: We only smoke the Lamentations. A right miserable cigarette.