That year, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced that arrested IRA members would be treated as ordinary criminals, not political prisoners. In the film there is a broadcast of Mrs Thatcher's speech "There is no such thing as political murder, political bombing, or political violence. There is only criminal murder, criminal bombing, and criminal violence.". In prison, being a political prisoner would be better, and being a political prisoner rather than a common criminal would mean acknowledging that an IRA member's actions were a political proposition rather than a common crime. So IRA inmates in jail have protested against the issue.
The movie does not directly describe Bobby's hunger strike at the beginning, but first describes two other protests before it - "Blanket" and "No-Wash". "Blanket" protests are IRA prisoners refusing to wear ordinary prisoner clothing and asking to wear their own civilian clothes like political prisoners. They protest without clothes and only wear a stall in prison. "No-Wash" protests are IRA inmates urinating against the cell door, allowing the urine to flow through the door and onto the prison porch, and then smearing the feces on the walls. The two protests are described in a very direct way in the movie. An IRA member who was imprisoned refused to wear a prison uniform, and was marked "non-cooperation" on the prison guard's notebook; for "No-Wash", it was mainly through. Two very long shots are depicted, one is the prison guard sweeping away urine step by step in the corridor, the other is the prison guard using a high-pressure water gun to wash off the pattern drawn with feces on the cell wall, and the prison guard doing two things. They were all wearing gas masks.
Then the backbone was Bobby Sands' hunger strike, beginning with a 17-minute conversation between him and a priest. Only one shot was used in these 17 minutes. During the dialogue, Bobby explained the meaning and determination of his hunger strike, and answered various questions raised by the priest (about his parents, suicide, the effect of the protest, etc.). Then the film enters into a detailed description of the process of Bobby's hunger strike. The camera completely shows Bobby's physical condition throughout the whole process. Bobby gradually becomes flesh and blood, in a trance, hallucinations, festering, vomiting, and bleeding. etc. "Hunger strike" is not a simple process. This process will usually make us unbearable in front of the camera. Naturally, it is not necessary to mention the parties who practice this process in person. The movie doesn't talk about Bobby's political views as a member of the IRA, or how he behaves as a terrorist. It just tells the process of his hunger strike in the most natural way, and we have to express our admiration for Bobby who took on all this. .
The film uses a fair amount of footage to describe how IRA inmates are mistreated in prison. The first is the process of the prison guard cutting and cleaning Bobby's head. At the beginning, the prison guard came up and punched Bobby hard. The whole process was extremely rude. When the IRA prisoners refused to accept the ordinary clothes given by the prison and smashed the doors and windows of the cell with chairs, the riot police who came showed no mercy to the prisoners, beat each prisoner with batons, and brutally Look for a note on your body that you can use to pass the message. These atrocities against prisoners probably express the state
's helplessness and fear for its own enemies, of course, the prison guards. The first person to appear at the beginning of the scene is a prison guard. When going to work in the morning, he must be very careful to check whether there is a bomb under the car. His wife watched him leave in fear. Of course, he himself was finally watched by the IRA members while watching his mother. shot. This prison guard used cold water to ice the knuckles he rubbed after roughing up Bobby, walked among his colleagues in a trance, and smoked a cigarette in the heavy snow outside the door in a trance. Another shot shows a riot police officer hiding behind a wall and crying while listening to his colleagues beat the prisoner. As the executor of the country's violence, his job is to abuse those who oppose it, and at the same time face all kinds of protests from the opponents. If you don't have a religious belief in the country's policies, the pain you need to bear is also very great. , so they bear the pain.
"Hunger" is not a movie with strong political appeal, but through the most direct participants in all aspects of this hunger strike, IRA prisoners, prison guards, riot police, prison doctors, priests, etc. The portrayal of direct experience, to reproduce this event. When presented to us, we are not judging a claim, but watching a process. This process can be regarded as a ritual for Bobby to sacrifice himself. He insists on his beliefs like an ascetic. What we can see is the process and various details of this ritual.
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