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Release Date:
2 October 2008 (Greece)
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Tagline:
An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest. more
Plot:
The last six weeks of the life of the Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 31 wins
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15 nominations
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(222 articles)
Nyfcc: The Hurt Locker Switches Status from Dark Horse to Front Runner
(From ioncinema. 14 December 2009, 8:40 PM, PST)
New York Film Critics Awards 2009
(From Alternative Film Guide. 14 December 2009, 3:01 PM, PST)
(From ioncinema. 14 December 2009, 8:40 PM, PST)
New York Film Critics Awards 2009
(From Alternative Film Guide. 14 December 2009, 3:01 PM, PST)
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Visceral
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Michael Fassbender | ... | Bobby Sands | |
| Stuart Graham | ... | Ray Lohan | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Helena Bereen | ... | Ray's mother | |
| Larry Cowan | ... | Prison Guard | |
| Liam Cunningham | ... | Father Moran | |
| Helen Madden | ... | Mrs Sands | |
| Des McAleer | ... | Mr Sands | |
| Dennis McCambridge | ... | Beaten Prisoner | |
| Liam McMahon | ... | Gerry | |
| Laine Megaw | ... | Mrs. Lohan | |
| Brian Milligan | ... | Davey | |
| Rory Mullen | ... | Priest | |
| Ben Peel | ... | Stephen Graves - Prison guard | |
| Lalor Roddy | ... | William | |
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96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Ireland:15A |
UK:15 |
Australia:MA |
France:-12 |
Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade) |
New Zealand:R16 |
Sweden:15 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (British Columbia) |
Canada:18A (Alberta/Manitoba/Ontario) |
Finland:K-15 |
Argentina:16
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The second medical attendant (one with mustache) who takes care of Bobby Sands in the hospital, has a ''UDA'' tattoo on his left hand. UDA is shortening for Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland.
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Referenced in "At the Movies: Summer Special 2008/09" (2008)
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Why did Bobby Sands starve himself?How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
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Believe it or not my path only crossed with this film on a rainy day when Quantom of Solace was sold out at the multiplex. I was aware of the historical background to the Northern Irish Troubles and the notorious Maze prison, the last thing i was wanted to see on screen was a glorified Republican political point scoring exercise. Many newspapers and MPs had been jumping on the possibility of the film being portrayed as pro IRA. I can say now with confidence that they're assumptions could not be more wrong. Hunger, is a brutal, graphic and pragmatic interpretation of what the last 6 weeks for Bobby Sands were like, frankly, a desperate decision that led to a slow and painful death, all in aid of the cause.
My two favourite parts of this film, has to be priest trying to give mass and Bobby Sands conversation with the priest and my total surprise at the dialogue between characters. I was waiting the prisoners to settle down and soak up religion, in addition when Sands stated his intention to hunger strike, i expected the priest to bombard him with sentiment and morality. What we get instead is a perfect example of how far the conflict had become removed from freverent religious belief and proliferation of beliefs, the film focuses on the sole fact that it has come a war of extermination, the exact beginnings of which have long been forgotten in the mess and carnage of Republican and Loyalist campaigns.
With the conversation with the Father Moran, i found myself identifying with his character, trying his hardest to persuade a friend from taking his life, only using morality as his last strand of defence. He states all thing unseen consequences to a immovable Bobby Sands; radicalisation of the movement, the recruitment of the loyalist paramilitaries, throwing Northern Ireland into more years of bloodshed basically Sands was lighting the touch paper because he was disillusioned with the leadership, and I have to agree with Moran's characters conclusion that it was ego driving Sands on.
I left the cinema numb, unfeeling and depressed. It was a representation of a human beings last resort for rights or recognition. I would not consider this film to be pro anything, I consider it to be a realist interpretation of the last weeks of Bobby Sands.