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...British rule, which was then being enforced by the Black and Tans, vicious and largely undisciplined soldiers recruited from the demobilized English army and functioning in Ireland as terrorist-enforcers of the status quo. Loach's film, written by Paul Laverty, focuses on a Sinn Fein (or revolutionist) "flying column" operating in County Cork, with special emphasis on a gentle young doctor, Damien (Cillian Murphy) and his more hot-headed brother, Teddy (Padraic Delaney), who is the group's leader. Theirs is a life of midnight raids on British barracks, roadside ambushes, betrayals, captivity (which includes brutal torture...
...between these two insurgencies, that Loach's film encounters its largest structural problem. Basically, he gathers most of his flying column figures in a room and sets them to yelling at one another about whether the half-loaf of freedom offered by the treaty with the Brits can satisfy the national hunger for full-scale independence. He gives the ameliorists a fair hearing, but most decide to return to the opposition. Despite the impassioned rhetoric of the meeting, it is, admittedly, a stage wait. Yet it is also, I think, a measure of Loach's high intentions that he gives...
Steven T. Cupps ’09 is an biological anthropology concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
Malcom A. Glenn ’09 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...