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Visto in lingua originale già gli merita un punto bonus nella mia personale classifica. Negli ultimi film Loach si lascia sempre andare troppo al dramma proletario, a volte perdendo di mordente. Non in questo: lucido, cattivo e spietato. Senza buonismi e senza facili giustificazioni di una cosa complicata come una guerra civile. Il parere di un mio anonimo amico irlandese spiega meglio di me perché mi è piaciuto questo film 🙂

" ….we were discussing it again last night. Very good, only depiction of the independence movement between 1919-1923 to have some credibility. Loach says that he was thinking of what's going on Iraq while making it, but separatist irish republicans see in it a story of betrayal currently being repeated by Sinn Fein. I think it works because of the fact that it's set in the countryside and this gives more space to the relations between the people rather than focussing on the urban guerilla etc. Thus we're shown the contradictions very simply, the complicity of the Irish soldier in the British army with the rebels (whom he helps to escape), the execution of a boy forced to inform on his comrades (one of the most common themes of Irish historical fiction), the cyclical character of the oppression (the British irregular army at the cottage at the beginning of the film, the free state army at the end). The movie was clearly influenced by a writer called Ernie O'Malley, who was military organizer of the IRA and then fought against the treaty. His "On Another Man's Wound" is the great account of the war of Independence.

So I liked it. And it's popular, also with less politicized people, and the comment you frequently hear is that 'it's a disgrace that it took an englishman to make a film like that about irish history…' ;)"

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