Hunger (3/5)
Posted on 22 Jun 2009
Every short while, I try to watch historically important films such as this, with their realism, bleakness, lofty ideals, martyrdom, which then reminds me how much I enjoy film as entertainment. I will say that the first ten minutes of exposition were quite clever; focusing on the tragic reality of the Irish prison guard life–we see him check underneath his car for a bomb before heading to the office–and then the film casually moves on to the prisoner point-of-view, and the disturbing hunger strike that solved who knows what. It was a “good” film and I want to look “mature” here so I’ll say 3 stars and be done with it.
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