01-23-2016, 03:08 PM
Good times in Northern Ireland.
At the height of the Troubles, a group of green British Army recruits is sent to Belfast to help support the RUC in their patrols of the Shankhill and Falls roads area.
On Day one the recruits are sent out to help support the police raid a house looking for weapons. Tensions rise. The neighborhood riots. The army quickly retreats back to their barracks. Except for two young soldiers left behind in the confusion, one of whom is gunned down with a shot point blank to the face. The other soldier spends the evening lurching from one faction to the next while trying to get home to safety.
The majority of the film takes place over the course of one night. The soldier gets to see all the different sides of the Northern Ireland conflict. He's chased by the IRA through the houses of Shankhill Road. He falls into the hands of the loyalists, but they are just as venal as the IRA. At one point, the soldier stumbles upon the complicity of the RUC at a bomb making factory. It's all ugly. Even the people who try to help him eventually get caught up in the butchery of the Troubles.
It felt realistic and gritty with no one coming away clean in the end. Nothing was black and white and this movie showed all of it.
Really bloody, but I enjoyed it.
At the height of the Troubles, a group of green British Army recruits is sent to Belfast to help support the RUC in their patrols of the Shankhill and Falls roads area.
On Day one the recruits are sent out to help support the police raid a house looking for weapons. Tensions rise. The neighborhood riots. The army quickly retreats back to their barracks. Except for two young soldiers left behind in the confusion, one of whom is gunned down with a shot point blank to the face. The other soldier spends the evening lurching from one faction to the next while trying to get home to safety.
The majority of the film takes place over the course of one night. The soldier gets to see all the different sides of the Northern Ireland conflict. He's chased by the IRA through the houses of Shankhill Road. He falls into the hands of the loyalists, but they are just as venal as the IRA. At one point, the soldier stumbles upon the complicity of the RUC at a bomb making factory. It's all ugly. Even the people who try to help him eventually get caught up in the butchery of the Troubles.
It felt realistic and gritty with no one coming away clean in the end. Nothing was black and white and this movie showed all of it.
Really bloody, but I enjoyed it.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm