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Date Posted: 22:10:37 09/14/09 Mon
Author: celtgirl ()
Subject: Hunger- I watched this incredible and disturbing movie tonight and just wanted to recommend it, though your stomach needs to be strong.



It's about the Hunger Strikes that took place in Maze/Long Kesh prison in 1981. This is something I've read a great deal about as it's where I intend to end the EU series. It was a watershed in Northern Irish history. I was stunned to find out the man playing Bobbie Sands in this movie was a German actor named Michael Fassbender- he's amazing, what he did to his body for this role, defies comprehension, his Belfast accent was flawless too.

Last time I was in Belfast and spent the day with Mick he took us to where Bobbie Sands grew up, and our last stop of the day was Bobbie's grave, it was one of those moments carved in my emotional memory forever. It was on the way to Ireland that time that I met Bobbie Sands' cousin in the Chicago airport, synchronicity is an amazing thing.

I don't think I could ever watch this movie again, but I know I'll never forget it. If you want to understand that period in Northern Irish history, I think this film goes a ways to showing what happened, not so much why really, for that you have to delve further back in the history.

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