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29 Jun 2006 03:38:45 AM |
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OT: It's an ill wind |
It's an ill wind
John Lloyd
June 28, 2006 11:03 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_lloyd/2006/06/a_shaky_wind.html
Ken Loach's film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley is not as bad as Mel
Gibson's Braveheart. It does at least profess some idealism, and it
isn't ridiculous. But it is bad in the same way that Braveheart was
bad: it makes a morality out of victimhood (socialist victimhood, in
this case).
The narrative is easily told. It is 1920. Faced with hideous cruelty
and humiliation of themselves and their fellow countrymen, a band of
republican volunteers conducts a series of ambushes and assassinations
on British troops, the irregular Black and Tans, and the locally
recruited Royal Irish Constabulary in pursuit of independence from
Britain.
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