[Pen-l] Hunger

["McDonough, Terrence" <terrence.mcdonough@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis P is right that if you were expecting Ken Loach from Hunger you would be bitterly disappointed.  Hunger is not a political movie and does not have the virtues of a political movie.  But it is a movie about politics.  It is a consideration of the body as an instrument of political oppression and as a site of resistance to that oppression.  Politics is or can be quite literally a visceral matter.  Louis is right that this is profoundly partial, but this part is also profound.  McQueen is disadvantaged by his background in the British art scene where the abstract expression of the concrete has been replaced by the concrete manifestation of the abstract.  But in this case he pulls it off and does it well IMHO.

Terry



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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:01:19 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
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If you expect ?Hunger?, Steve McQueen?s new movie about Bobby Sands and
the hunger strike at Long Kesh prison in 1981, to be anything like Ken
Loach?s ?The Wind that Shakes the Barley?, you will be bitterly
disappointed. I had to restrain myself from bolting from my seat several
times at last night?s press screening and only stuck around to the
conclusion in order to gather sufficient material to put a nail in the
coffin of this dreadful movie.

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/hunger/
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