hunger

Moises 2022-03-25 09:01:11

Northern Irish Republican Army leader Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) was arrested for leading a march against the authorities. In Metz prison, he still did not give up the struggle. The prison was filled with six-square-metre closed cells and housed NIRA prisoners, who were naked and refused to wear prison uniforms to defy Margaret Thatcher's decree that stripped prisoners of their rights. They pass the message by covering the ditches under the Transfiguration doors with filthy food and excrement.
The prisoners were kept abreast of news of the IRA's struggle with the British government through a smuggled radio. Finally, when Sands decides to go on a hunger strike, he has a wonderful debate with Father Dominic Moran (Liam Cunningham), but it doesn't help.
… Won the Golden Camera Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Reginald 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    Too technical each department will make the plot lose its sense of coherence, and the awesome director's awesome photography poses a problem for the editor. The impact of editing effects on the plot must be considered in advance! The cinematography is great, the sound is a bit overkill, and the acting is mediocre.

  • Chadrick 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Through the "blanket" and "no cleaning" campaigns, they went on a collective hunger strike, and finally completed their struggle by dying. Purging and anti-purging are the essence of political struggle. The British regime must build a political and social order, that is, to maintain the surface level of the order, it needs to go through the process of “cleaning” to exclude dissidents. The prisoners' struggle is not to establish a new order, but to expose and justify the existence of dissent.

Hunger quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.