Re: [Marxism] request for political film suggestions

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

Octob1917@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 11/25/2004 8:19:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, einde@xxxxxx
> writes:
> "In the Name of the Father", a great film about the framing of the
> Guildford Four - it really brought back the period to me (and it has a
> brilliant soundtrack).
>
> I wouldn't include In The Name Of The Father. It strikes an anti-Republican
> stance, condemning the IRA. Much better is Some Mother's Son about the hunger
> strikes.
>
> Just my opinion though.
I thought the most important message was the responsibility of the
British state for the frame-up. Having lived as a young Irishman in
London at the time I felt that it evoked the period and milieu (my
milieu) brilliantly, as what happened to them could have happened to any
of us - and to be frank nearly did because of the close family ties
between one of the people I shared with at the time and an IRA man
arrested shortly afterwards. Several people I knew at that time ended up
doing time in the North, even though half of those who did time weren't
in the IRA when they were first arrested - most were, however, by the
time they were released.

Einde O'Callaghan


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