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DIVISION

Today's film was Ken Loach's

The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)

This is another telling of the Irish 'troubles', particularly during the time just before and right after formation of the truce and partitioning of 1922.

We see that victory over oppression has its own downside as the divisions occur as the oppressor leaves.

Two brothers discover this most intimately; Cillian Murphy (a standout) and Padraic Delaney.

This is, at times, a very difficult film to watch. Not so much the grisly but the mental stress of continued conflict.

This is too late for the NYTimes Best Film list but I am sure it would have been a contender.

I rented it because it has gotten such good reviews and high interest.

I can't get enough of the Irish stuff. It is under my skin somehow. I have seen almost all the major films about this period. They keep coming.

It is like the holocaust; never over.

I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films