Five Minutes in Heaven: The choice of two men

Calista 2022-03-28 09:01:14

Northern Ireland, a small region in the east of Ireland, is synonymous with violence and bloodshed. People grow up in such an environment and bring hatred to a new generation.

A shooting incident completely changed the lives of the two men, and the suffering lasted for 33 years. If there is no such meeting, they will continue to be tortured, but no one can predict what kind of situation the enemy will meet. The highlight of the film lies in this, fully figuring out the psychology of both sides, and using as many details as possible to show the state of mind at that time.

One was dumbfounded watching the murderer kill his brother, and was blamed for a long time by his mother, carrying deep self-blame and hatred for the murderer; the other was impulsively murdering someone when he was young, and the 12 years in prison was enough to reflect on his own mistakes. The work is to resolve such contradictions in order to atone for sin. With the killing of his brother, his parents passed away one after another, and another brother committed suicide by taking medicine. He is the only one left in a good family. Maybe most people have the idea of ​​revenge when facing the murderer who destroyed their own family. 33 years of pain, even five minutes of happiness after killing the murderer, is like heaven, but is it really so? He already has his own small family, has a wife and two lovely daughters, is it worth the thrill of revenge?

The fierce fight between the two at the scene of the shooting was a real self vent, venting their depression and hatred. After the fight, the severe pain all over their body made them calm down and talk and listen. Hatred needs to be resolved. After a happy vent and seeing his family again, he must let go. The future is his current family, not the broken home in the past. When he can let go of this burden, it will undoubtedly be great love for the murderer, and the two men can finally relax.

Heaven is no longer five minutes, but the rest of your life...

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  • Abigail 2022-03-27 09:01:23

    What a situation! ! !

  • Margarete 2022-03-27 09:01:23

    Irish accent is weird

Five Minutes of Heaven quotes

  • Alistair Little: Time will heal they say... what everybody says about everything. The years just get heavier. Why don't they tell you that? Nobody tells you that!

  • [first lines]

    Young Alistair - 1975: [narrating] For me to talk about the man I have become, you need to know about the man I was. I was 14 when I joined the Tartan gangs, and I was 15 when I joined the UVF, the Ulster Volunteer Force. At that time, don't forget, there were riots on the streets every week; petrol bombs everyday, and that was just in our town. When you got home and switched on the TV, you could see what was happening in every other town as well, and it was like we were under siege. Fathers and brothers and friends were being killed in the streets, and the feeling was, we all have to do somethin'. We're all in this together and we all have to do somethin'.