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Mood:
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- Fighting the SystemPoliticsHuman SpiritPolitical UnrestInjusticeLife is a BitchSocietyState Affairs more...
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- DramaHistoricalPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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- EuropeIrelandUrban
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- Award WinnerControversialCritically AcclaimedBerlin Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Gory
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- Based on True Story
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Bloody Sunday, 2002
English
UK, Ireland
Profile of Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday can be described as disturbing, thought provoking, and bleak. The plot revolves around political unrest, injustice, and the human spirit. The main genres are drama, period, and historical. In terms of style, Bloody Sunday is gory. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Bloody Sunday is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. It is located in Ireland. It takes place in the 20th century. Bloody Sunday is originally a true story. The movie has received attention for being a Berlin festival winner, controversial, and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves profanity and violent content.
Summary of Bloody Sunday
In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' Bloody Sunday, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. Surrounding a peaceful protest march staged in contest to British laws that permitted internment without trial, the film charts the progress of the march from the night before it to the night following it. As the final organizing of the march takes place that morning, MP Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) rushes from the street where police barriers are being erected to his office where he fields a string of urgent phone calls. Meanwhile Major General Ford (Tim Pigott-Smith) arranges for a heavily armed troop of commandos in fatigues and face paint to be ready to intercept the march if it turns violent. A third persona, Kevin McCorry (Allan Gildea), is a young lad with a prison record who believes in the cause of the march but wants to avoid conflict and any real trouble. As the march proceeds, and chaos ensues, the British militia opens fire onto the unarmed crowds, shooting 27 and killing 13 in one of the most shocking instances of excessive force in Irish history, ending any hope of nonviolent resolution, and stoking the IRA.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, Ireland |
| Release date: | 16 January 2002 |
| Runtime: | 107 min |
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as Ivan Cooper
as Major General Ford
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Critics Reviews
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- by: Scott Foundas
Chicago Tribune
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- by: Mark Caro
Users Reviews
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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- 11.June.2009
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- by: jostrem
- jostrem rated this movie
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