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MARTYR

Today's film was Steve McQueen's

Hunger (2008)

which chronicles the events around the hunger strike which was led by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) in protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners.

It is tough to watch. Uncompromising. And beautiful.

The brutality of the Brits is not spared nor the reality of the IRA's recalcitrance.

An incredibly long scene between a priest intermediary and Sands shows all the issues and their intractability toward solution.

In the meantime, men suffer. Other men are assassinated.

It was voted the Independent Spirit Best Film of the year.

I think that this is a film that everyone should see. I am not sure that I would want to see it again but I am going to make it a 5 out of Netflix5 for the accomplishment of its mission to show and tell a story no one wants to hear.

Labels: films