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In recreating the events
leading up to and including the notorious hunger strikes at
Northern Ireland's Maze Prison in 1981, McQueen has made one
of the year's most controversial films: it is a brutally
violent and uncomfortable cinematic experience but one which
is also startling and brilliant.
Ignore what certain aspects
of the media will inevitably latch on to: Mcqueen (and
co-writer Enda Walsh) are neither pandering to the cause of
the terrorists nor showing them in any sympathetic light.
The film is particular about the detail it gives to both
sides of the story; following anonymous prison officers as
they try to avoid being assassinated on Civvy Street while
using vicious force - necessary in their view - to subjugate
their charges.
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