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proxieme
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posted March 29, 2003 01:58 PM
 
I was wondering if any of ya'll have seen "Bloody Sunday" (written/directed by Paul Greengrass; won the 2002 Sundance Audience Award for Best Pic).A P/T job I have @ a video store gives me access to preview copies; I took this one home and have scarred myself for life by watching it on a Saturday afternoon. IP: Logged |
Harpyr
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posted March 29, 2003 02:23 PM
No, I haven't seen it..
It's about the struggle in Ireland, I take it? I don't know as much about the history there as I'd like. I have alot of Irish anscestry and would like to learn more about their struggle..  IP: Logged |
N_wEvil
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posted March 29, 2003 03:50 PM
i've heard of it..maybe i'll obtain a copy.IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted March 29, 2003 04:24 PM
Harpyr - It's really worth seeing. Heck, I liked it (read: was completely blown away by the emotional impact, sitting in front my TV slack-jawed and outraged/numb), and a lot of my ancestry's Scottish 
It's a short hop from that movie/those events to the course of the unfolding of events in many parts of the world (both @ present and through history).N_w - kazaalite, anyone?  IP: Logged |
Quinnie
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posted March 29, 2003 05:36 PM
Proxieme was it a movie or a documentary?IP: Logged |
theFajita3
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posted March 30, 2003 12:18 AM
Kewl job to have Proxieme!------------------
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proxieme
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posted March 30, 2003 12:07 PM
Quinnie - It's a movie done in documentary form Ah - I can't tell ya any more info; I turned the movie in yesterday  Fajita - Yep, it is a cool job I meet the most interesting people in the world.  (I just put that smiley there to keep w/ my trend of one at the end of each sentence.) IP: Logged |
Quinnie
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posted March 30, 2003 12:26 PM
Proxieme what did you think of it? There was a documentary type film shown over here and it showed both sides of the story.... Police side and civilians side.
It was very good, touched on very sensitive issues,but it was needed.
Was this the same movie?
James Nesbitt was one of the main characters in it. Were they Irish actors?
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proxieme
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posted March 30, 2003 01:08 PM
It blew me away.
It's one thing to have an intellectual understanding of what happened, it's another to have it presented to you like this (hurrah for challenging film makers).
I think that we may be talking about the same movie, but I've turned it in and no site that I can find lists the actors (who were all Irish and British).Here's Amazon.com's editorial description of it:
With breathtaking verisimilitude, Bloody Sunday posits an immediate, you-are-there re-creation of Ireland's most controversial contemporary tragedy. From dusk to dawn, the events of January 30, 1972, are presented in convincing verité fashion; by employing rapid fade-to-black transitions, director Paul Greengrass approaches two perspectives with equal anticipation of potential disaster, based on facts as reported in Don Mullan's politically influential book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday. Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) is, ironically, a Protestant Member of Parliament, leading a peaceful but tensely expectant civil rights march through the Catholic "bogside" of the city of Derry, in protest of the British practice of internment without trial. He watches in horror as his throng of unarmed protesters splinters against British paramilitaries who impulsively open fire. No question where Greengrass's sympathies lie (heard but not seen, the first shots are British), but despite charges of inaccuracy and bias, Bloody Sunday will likely stand as the definitive cinematic representation of that horrible day when deadly confusion reigned supreme. (U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" plays over the closing credits; any other choice would have been blasphemous.) Aha! The Yahoo.com movie page for it lists the actors, and James Nesbitt is in it. http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808417768&intl=us IP: Logged |
Quinnie
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posted April 01, 2003 04:15 AM
Yep thats the one I saw. It was so good that I think the film makers and people contributing towards it actually feared for their lives. It was shown here on the BBC channel and was seriously needed to help people involved in Bloody Sunday purge free from it.
I'm glad you took notice and watched it Proxieme.
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proxieme
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posted April 03, 2003 08:47 PM
Yup, yup - and I loaned it out to one of my profs who did her thesis work (um, I think that was it) on the peace process in Ireland.
I'ma spreadin' the news Have you seen "No Man's Land"? IP: Logged |
Zerep
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posted April 04, 2003 02:20 PM
I'm irish, I saw it-it is amazing, very affecting for those who have experienced something like it. I'm glad it has opened outsiders eyes.IP: Logged |
Quinnie
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posted April 06, 2003 07:06 PM
Proxieme I haven't seen 'No man's Land', is that another Irish film?IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted April 09, 2003 08:36 PM
Naw, it's not Irish, but it's another movie that really touched me (although much more a dark and searing comedy than a documentary-style eye-opener). If you can find it, it's worth seeing.-------------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Danis Tanovic's Academy Award®-winning satire of the war in the Balkans is an astounding balancing act, an acidic black comedy grounded in the brutality and horror of war. Stuck in an abandoned trench between enemy lines, a Serb and a Bosnian play the blame game in a comic t*t-for-tat struggle while a wounded Serb soldier lies helplessly on a land mine. A French tank unit of the U.N.'s humanitarian force (known locally as "the Smurfs"), a scheming British TV reporter, a German mine defuser, and the U.N. high command (led by a bombastically ineffectual Simon Callow) all become tangled in the chaotic rescue as the tenuous cease-fire is only a spark away from detonation. Tanovic directs with a ferocious, angry eloquence and makes his points with vivid metaphors and a savage humor as harrowing as it is hilarious. Searing and smart, this satire carries an emotional recoil. --Sean Axmaker Zerep - How's Paris treat an Irishperson? (I was going to say "Irishman", but I have no idea if you're a man or woman.) IP: Logged |
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