"The Wind That Shakes the Barley" my personal opinion.
Talking about history movies is always difficult. One the one hand, you've got to be able to declare an honest judgement about the technique and style that surrounds the plot without emotional or personal attachments to the context. On the other, that particular context might be enough to say that the movie itself is great, overshadowing it's technical methods by the emotive weight of history. With this in mind, i do believe it's a good movie, but due to a profound and painful plot that portrays the irish social and politic conflict between 1919-1923, and not because of the technical and stylistic management. A flat camera treatment, "not easy to buy" character deaths, the old good accent problem in not-irish actors... If i had to delcare this picture as a good one, i would say that it's because of the historic factor and the flashy cinematic war paraphernalia that makes it feel like a big deal.
And although accent is really an issue, i've found that my favorite scene is that at of peggy's grandson death at the begining of the movie, and the trigger of the plot itself. In this particular scene, languaje plays a vital role giving the inability of the grandson to speak equally with the military, flashing out the violence of the armed men and the impotence of the humble people. wich later become brothers-in-arms. That aside, if i had to pick one character as my favorite, i would stick with Tommy. Sure, he's an asshole at the end of the movie but that's what makes him interesting. He has been a part of every important moment of the movie's plot, he himself is a narrative and emotional edge of the film. And most importantly; he, as every human being, changes, and the story with him. So i like Tommy because i found him to be real, more humaine, 'cause it's the decisions that characters make and don't that build up a good storytelling.
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