Hunger Channel 4 Tuesday 15 December 09

[LittleMontyontheDustyRoad]

Is anyone watching this or watched it?

Oh

mi

God

Well, I was kind of half watching it, but have just turned it off as I can't bear it any more.

Is it based on true facts?

I'm sort of watching it. Eeek. Naively a bit confused at what they have just been doing.

Little - aside from that I love your christmas name. Its exactly what we sing to ds

I believe so. I was a teenager then and followed it in the news but I never imagined such brutality. But then we weren't going to be told about that.

I'm finding it extremely difficult to watch and might not get to the end. It's harrowing. Its making me ashamed to be a human being.

Mistletoe I thank you.

They are trying to beat them into submission to stop they're hunger strike protest.

(Margaret Thatcher years).

their

It's harsh. Can't give it my full attention, though DP is glued.
It is quite true to events, I believe.

Oh I got that, I just didn't get the use of rubber gloves and the mirror. But best not to analyse that aspect of human behavior probably?

Hi Wukter - twas fun

I believe it is true. Horrid horrid. I have had the book for years but have been unable to read it, I think I will now. Face it.

Perhaps the brutality bit (in the film) is over now and they'll get down to the nitty gritty of the politics.

Mistle that was a strip (anal) search and then the warden shoved the glove in the prisoner's mouth. (Bobby Sands?)

right. horrific.

It makes me wonder if any of those guys actually died of hunger. How they would have lived through those beatings.

I didn't catch this film even though I am a huge fan of Michael Fassbender, and think he is definitely an actor to watch out for. I would have liked to have seen it, as the subject matter interests me. Although I am slightly troubled about the reviews on here to be honest. I hope the film didn't end up glorifying the IRA in any way, or did it gloss over Bobby Sands involvement in terrorist activities?

I saw this film at the cinema, brilliant. Think you could tell it was directed by an artist too, just in how the film looks. And yes, these were methods used against the IRA by the British.

Wintera- it glossed over nothing. It told it how it was. Brutality in the prison camps in NI.

DONE

Iraq brutality springs to mind.

Bobby Sands was a politician. I was a teenager then living in England. I didn't realise the brutality.

I remember now why I hate the name of Margeret Thathcher. Had there been gas chambers she would so have done it. For being catholic.

I leave you guys to it.

Go on shoot me.