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Like Gary (and Louis) I was appalled by this film. In fact, given the politics were largely stripped away, I felt it was a piece of unrelieved sadism I was watching on the screen. I kept hoping it would pick up and we'd see something positive in it, but no it was just one continuous piece of relentless pain and misery. A deeply anti-human film. How it won any awards is mind-boggling. I guess the film's miserabilism and all-round anti-humanity is what passes for 'realism' in film these days, at least among sufficient numbers of cognoscenti to provide it with a few awards. Have any half-decent films been made set in 'The Troubles' - I can only think of Loach's 'Hidden Agenda'. His 'Wind that Shakes the Barley' was quite good, but that was about the war for independence and civil war and I always thought it would have been better to set that in a city - especially Dublin - than rural Cork. Phil _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
