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hangthadj
18 Nov 2002, 10:12 AM
I don't know why I put an R, I'm sure everyone knows the events of that day. oh well.
Has anyone else seen this film.
It's impossible not to discuss it, I think, without politics. Something about this movie irks me but I can't place my finger on it.
cosmosRIP
18 Nov 2002, 10:43 AM
I thought it was incredible, best movie I've seen in a while, I was going to post on the best films of the 2000s thread and this was the first movie I thought of (I did just see it). For most of it you'd swear it was documentary footage.
As far as historical accuracy did the planting of a nail bomb on a dead guy really happen?
hangthadj
18 Nov 2002, 10:52 AM
Originally posted by cosmosRIP
I thought it was incredible, best movie I've seen in a while, I was going to post on the best films of the 2000s thread and this was the first movie I thought of (I did just see it). For most of it you'd swear it was documentary footage.
As far as historical accuracy did the planting of a nail bomb on a dead guy really happen?
I'm not sure if the planting on the dead guy really happened. I wouldn't be suprised. But as for the look of the film, it really did look like documentary footage. That being the case some of the questionable historical aspects make me a little uncomfortable, just cause the film LOOKED so damn real.
cosmosRIP
18 Nov 2002, 11:09 AM
What did you consider questionable historical aspects?
hangthadj
18 Nov 2002, 11:45 AM
I'm not sure I worded that correctly. It's most likely a pretty fair document of that day, and I thought that they would have villified the Brits much more going into that. It's just that I fear many people will see that movie and not knowing the history of Irish/English relations will think that Bloody Sunday was the beginning of everything and it wasn't.
dfb547490
18 Nov 2002, 11:57 AM
There's a movie about this??
Alex
Foosinho
18 Nov 2002, 11:59 AM
Originally posted by hangthadj
It's just that I fear many people will see that movie and not knowing the history of Irish/English relations will think that Bloody Sunday was the beginning of everything and it wasn't.
American understanding of that conflict is so totally screwed up anyway, it probably wouldn't matter much.
BTW, has your girl sent off that video yet? I kinda need it... :)