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Victims of hatred, the most important thing is to cross that hurdle
Rhiannon 2022-03-28 09:01:14
The 33-year entanglement was only because he was present at the time, the relatives of the person he killed were present, and the shadows that neither of them could erase in 33 years. One perpetrator and one victim's family, for such a long period of time, it was actually not a grudge. It's the guilt in the hearts of both parties, a hurdle that can never be hidden from the past... The movie spends most of the time in detailing the complicated emotions of the two people in that scene: hatred, tension, escape... In fact, both of them belong to "" Victims" - the victims of hatred, the main thing is to cross that hurdle...
Extended Reading
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Alistair Little: Time will heal they say... what everybody says about everything. The years just get heavier. Why don't they tell you that? Nobody tells you that!
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[first lines]
Young Alistair - 1975: [narrating] For me to talk about the man I have become, you need to know about the man I was. I was 14 when I joined the Tartan gangs, and I was 15 when I joined the UVF, the Ulster Volunteer Force. At that time, don't forget, there were riots on the streets every week; petrol bombs everyday, and that was just in our town. When you got home and switched on the TV, you could see what was happening in every other town as well, and it was like we were under siege. Fathers and brothers and friends were being killed in the streets, and the feeling was, we all have to do somethin'. We're all in this together and we all have to do somethin'.