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The wind that shakes the barley

Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:37 am
by Gob
Anyone else seen this? Thoughts?

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In 1920, rural Ireland is the permanent battlefield of republican rebels against the British troops and their well-paid, local collaborator militia, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less then a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers

Re: The wind that shakes the barley

Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:19 am
by MajGenl.Meade
It's always a treat to see Lee-Enfields

Re: The wind that shakes the barley

Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:56 pm
by Sean
Personally I thought it was romanticised bollocks.

Re: The wind that shakes the barley

Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:22 pm
by Gob
Are you sure you got the right film there Sean? "Romancing the bollocks" was a porn rip of of "Romancing the stone."

Re: The wind that shakes the barley

Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:41 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Stones, Gob. Stones.