Response #2 Hunger

       Wow what a movie! I'm so glad Mr. Benton showed us this movie. It was a real eye opener and I really enjoyed it. The movie is a lot of behind the scenes looks into the lives of these inmates going on hunger strike in a maximum security jail. Some people in my class were so clueless as to what was going on; it made me laugh.  I am so glad that some of my class mates were exposed to that type of lifestyle. Some people didn't even know any of that stuff even goes down in jail, but on the other hand you don’t know  until you exposed to such horrible events as the ones showed on the movie. The movie is about an Irish Republican that went on Hunger strike. It is the story of the last six weeks of his life, and all the trials he put himself through.
     Can I just say, the actors in this movie were what put the goose bumps on my skin? They made everything seem so really and NASTY! Everything to the poop on the walls, to the screaming inmates as they were beaten, to the guard’s mother in the mental institution. Even to this day, a week later, the things that I saw on that movie are still turning my stomach. There’s been one actor that deserved a standing ovation and that was Michael Fassbender. Michael Fassbender played the part of Bobby Sands. Was the actor that did an amazing job wow……she put the acting in actor. That is one example of an actor getting into his/her role. He really became Bobby Sands and

 I think what really made the movie, was the real life grittiness of the movie. The film directors did an amazing job of bringing all of the events that took place during that period, and in the jail into reality. At the end of the movie you also see how serious everything was during that time in Ireland. Another thing that stuck with me was the fact that all the other inmates say the damage that Mr. Sands put on himself, and for nine other people to endure the same torture was dedication; some people would say ignorance. There was also a part in the movie that stuck with me. There's a point in the middle of the movie that has Bobby Sands talking to the priest, during a visitation to see if the priest can persuade Bobby to stop everything. What stood out was that it was a 20 minute script. These actors had to of known their parts to a t and any slip ups or forgetting their lines, they would of had to of started all the way over. But for an actor to memorize 20 minute worth of lines is pretty amazing.

The most memorial thing about the movie is that they showed everyone’s point of view on the matter from the Guards doing to beating, to the Guards that worked for the Jail, and they also showed the real lives of the ones affected by the strike. I showed their normal lives and how every single one of them has their own life outside of the jail and that eventually they must all go home to their normal lives. It was like the movie Crash. It plays back to each character, and how they are a part of the situation and the time line leading up to the event. That's how this movie was it was very outlandish but I loved it. It showed everyone’s point of view on the strike and how it affected not only the inmates but everyone having to endure such events.