Hunger is a 2008 Irish-British historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon, about the Irish hunger strike in 1981. That written by Enda Walsh and McQueen.
It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning a prestigious award for first-time filmmakers. The film went on to win the Sydney Film Awards at the Sydney Film Festival, the Grand Prix of the Belgian Critics Syndicate, the best picture of the British Standard Night Film Awards, and received two BAFTA nominations, winning one. The film was also nominated for eight awards at IFTA 2009, winning six at the event.
The film starred in Fassbender as Bobby Sands, Republican Army Republican Republican (IRA) Republican (IRA) volunteer who headed a second IRA hunger strike and participated in a wash-free protest (led by Brendan "The Dark" Hughes) where Irish Republican prisoners tried to obtain returning political status after being uprooted by the British government in 1976. It outlines events at the Maze Prison in the period leading up to the hunger strike and its aftermath.
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Plot
Prison officer Raymond Lohan prepares to leave work; he cleaned his bloody knuckles, checked his car for bombs, put on his uniform, and ignored his colleagues.
Davey Gillen, a new IRA prisoner, arrived; he was categorized as a "disobedient inmate" because of his rejection of wearing a prison uniform. She was sent to her cell naked with only a blanket. His cellmate, Gerry Campbell, has smeared the walls with floor-to-ceiling dirt as part of the wash protest. Both men know each other and are seen living in the cell. Gerry's boyfriend sneaked the radio by wrapping it up and putting it in her pussy.
Forcible and rude prison officers remove prisoners from their cells and beat them before pinning them to cut their long hair and beard, growing as part of the washout protest. The prisoners refused, Sands spat into Lohan's face, who responded by punching her face and then swinging again, only to miss and hit the wall, causing her knuckles to bleed. She cuts hair and beard Sands; the men threw Sands into the tub and cleaned them up before pulling them back. Lohan then looks smoking, as in the opening scene, her hands covered in blood.
Later, the prisoners were taken out of their cells and given former civilian clothing. The guards were seen laughing as they were handed over to the prisoners who responded, after Sands's initial act, by tearing clothes and damaging their cells. For subsequent interactions with inmates, a large number of riot police were seen coming to jail by truck. They lined up and beat their wands against shields and shouted to frighten the prisoners, who were transported from their cells, then forced to run the challenge between the riot police lines where they were beaten with sticks by at least 10 people at once. Lohan and some of his colleagues then examined their anus first and then their mouths, using the same pair of rubber gloves for every man. A prisoner heads a guard and is brutally beaten by a riot officer. One riot officer was seen crying while his comrades, on the other side of the wall, brutally beat the prisoners with their wands.
Lohan visited her catatonic mother in a nursing home. He was shot in the back of the head by an IRA killer and died slumped into his mother's lap.
Sands meets Father Dominic Moran and discusses the morality of a hunger strike. Sands tells the pastor about a trip to Donegal where he and his friends find a foal by a stream that cuts itself on the rocks and breaks its hind legs. Sands drowns the boy and tells the priest, even though he's in trouble, he knows he's done the right thing by ending his misery. He then says he knows what he does and what he will do to her, but he says he will not stand up and do nothing. The rest of the film shows Sands into his hunger strike, with tears all over his body, kidney failure, low blood pressure, stomach ulcers, and an inability to stand alone eventually. In the last days, when the Sands were in the bath, a more regular one came to provide regular regular breaks. The larger orderly sat next to the bath and showed Sands his knuckles, which were tattooed with the letter "UDA". Sands tries to stand on his own and ends up doing it with all his strength, staring defiantly at the UDA on a regular basis who refuses to help him, but then he collapses on the floor with no power left to stand. Orderly took him to his room. Sands's parents stay for the last days, his mom is by his side when Sands dies, 66 days after starting the strike.
The film explains that Sands was elected to the Royal Parliament as MPs for Fermanagh and South Tyrone as he strikes. Nine other men died with him during a seven-month strike before being canceled. 16 prison officials were killed by paramilitaries along the protests portrayed in the film. Shortly thereafter, the British government acknowledged in one form or another for almost all five prisoners' demands even though it never formally gave political status.
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Cast
Production
After funding for Hunger was rejected by the Irish Film Board, the film was funded by Northern Ireland, the Irish Broadcasting Commission, Channel 4, Film4 Production, and Creative IP Fund of Wales.
In preparation for his role, Michael Fassbender went on a special diet of less than 900 calories per day for ten weeks. After meeting with a nutritionist, he decided to eat berries, nuts, and sardines, and underwent periodic medical examinations. In an interview with The Telegraph , Fassbender said that he skipped, did yoga, and walked four and a half miles a day, but also added that he had trouble sleeping, and stopped seeing friends. He also said that the experience made him feel "grateful" and "strong".
The film is also famous for its unfailing 17-minute shot, in which a priest played by Liam Cunningham tried to talk to Bobby Sands out of protest. In it, the camera stays in the same position for the duration of the shoot. To prepare for the scene, Cunningham moved to Michael Fassbender's apartment for a while as they practiced scenes between twelve and fifteen times a day. According to Fassbender, they only do five times.
Release
Hunger aired at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2008, where he opened the official sidebar, Without Specific Exceptions , triggered a walkout and a standing ovation before a screening at the Sydney Film Festival on June 7, the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, the New York Film Festival on September 27, and the Chicago International Film Festival on October 19, 2008.
The film was released in the UK and Ireland on October 31, 2008.
Critical reception
Hunger received praise from critics, audiences and at various festivals around the world. The film has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 115 reviews with an average score of 7.8 out of 10. The consensus states "Unflinching, uncompromising, vital and alive, Steve McQueen challenges debut not for the fainthearted, but it still tells returning to precious difficult times. "Metacritic, another reviewer, assigned the film a weighted average score of 82 (out of 100) based on 25 reviews of the major critics, regarded as" universal recognition ".
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times spoke most positively from the section stating, "Hunger is not about the rights and mistakes of the English people in Northern Ireland, but about the inhumane conditions of prison, the core determination of IRA members like Bobby Sands, and rocks and tough places. "Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, highly appreciates this film and says:" Shocking directly and philosophically, Hunger is an indelible tribute to what makes us humans and praised "... the way McQueen shows the body itself as an arsenal of weapons, arguably the last weapon we have to fight." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian prints a maximum five-star slice, writes, "There is an avoidance of influence and rejection of traditional soft-liberal dialogical movements, dramatic consensus and narrative resolution." It is a strong and provocative work, which leaves burns the zero level on the retina. "While praising McQueen's work," Famine suggests that McQueen is a real filmmaker and his background in art has meant a strong concentration on images, unmatched attention to things seen, moment. "
Lauren Wissot of Slant Magazine said of the film, "Hunger, with all the visual elements, sonic and editing flowing together in harmony like a five-star dish, six dishes, exemplifying the phrase [the art film]." And that, "McQueen's movie is a nuanced masterpiece that never shows off its art, but uses it humbly to serve a very important story." Nigel Andrews of the Financial Times is touting his film and director Steve McQueen, "McQueen understands the first principle of cinema on both sides of the center, where the most remarkable words are ironic witnesses, the impossibility to explain, Hunger has the power and hierarchical integrity of the silent cinema. "Matthew De Abaitua from Film4 gets a five-star movie of five stars," Intense, disturbing and powerful blend of vision and detail: a terrible leisure time combined with a distinctly artistic sense of artistry.
Ian Freer of the Empire magazine praised McQueen and Fassbender, proclaiming, "Anchored by Fassbender's turn, Hunger is as important as personal as politics, but the real breakthrough is McQueen, which turns into a mesmerizing film and challenge in size "Dave Calhoun from Time Out , gave the film five stars maximum, stating" Imagine how most filmmakers will tell this story and then see 'Hunger': the difference is bold and strong and restores confidence in the cinema's ability to cover history free of text boundaries and personality.This is not an easy hour - but it is one that is refreshing. "McQueen is a long-lived." Noel Murray, writing for The AV The club highlights, "Hunger may be criticized for deliberately artsy, or to reduce the complicated political situation into a vast allegory vision of martyrdom, but it's never less than stunning visuals."
Critic J. Hoberman of The Village Voice calls the film, "A very balanced work" and "a compelling drama which is also a formalist victory." Hoberman goes on to say, "I have seen Hunger three times, and with every examination, the spectacle of violence, suffering, and pain is more terrible and more amazing." Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly starved Hung A - on A to F and states, "For the pleasure and inconvenience of your art-home, this is one of the most talked-about film festival victories of 2008, the ferocious re-creation of the last six weeks in life and slow, self-starvation of Irish starter Bobby Sands. "
Writing for The New York Post, Kyle Smith praised the McQueen movie, "Regardless of politics, one must give a great gift to McQueen, which reminds Paul Greengrass in another Northern Irish film, Bloody Sunday." Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail gave the film a maximum of four out of four stars, "Famine - a disturbing, provocative, brilliant feature of the debut of British director Steve McQueen - not for what modern film Caravaggio did Renaissance painting. Reyhan Harmanci of the San Francisco Chronicle writes, "It's horrible, but Hunger displays unusual intelligence and visual panache, transcending the purpose of making the situation look real, it's more than real. in addition to praising McQueen's work by stating "Steve McQueen is a well-known visual artist who is a feature film director that makes you expect more filmmakers to go to art school." Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post highly praised the film, writing, "McQueen has taken the raw material of filmmaking and performing great artistic acts." and called the work "Artistic masterpiece."
Wendy's Idea from The Times praised McQueen's talent for directing and screenwriting by stating, "In the end, one thing that can not be questioned is the courageous and persistent talent of McQueen."
Accolades
The film appears on some of the top ten listings of critics in 2008. Andrea Gronvall from Chicago Reader Che ).
Hunger was voted best film of 2008 by British film magazine Sight & amp; Sound , and that year McQueen received the Discovery Award and $ 10,000 at the 33rd annual Toronto film festival. It also won the best film category at the 2009 Evening Standard British Film Awards. The film was also crowned as "The Best Movie 2009" by the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards; it shared the award with Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds . Director McQueen won the Carl Forman BAFTA Award for "Special Achievement by British Director, Writer or Producer for Their First Feature Film".
References
External links
- Hunger on IMDb
- Hunger in Box Office Mojo
- Hunger at Rotten Tomatoes
- EyeForFilm.co.uk - New York Film Festival press conference with Steve McQueen on Hunger
- Life and death in Long Kesh - Ronan Bennett's film memoirs and reviews, The Guardian
- Hunger was nominated for Index at Film Award Censorship 2009
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