This play provides a partial description of the later period of the Irish War of Independence and the beginning of the Civil War.

Erich 2021-12-26 08:01:08

This movie can let people at least know that this place in Ireland once had such a history, so give it four stars. . . In fact, the Irish troops are weak at the base areas behind enemy lines and are not able to face the enemy head-on. If the British Empire really brought back the front-line regular army, he would never be independent. In history, the British Empire sent veterans who were able to succeed at that time. They were all veterans who had recovered after World War I. The veterans were supposed to be very experienced, but they were not effectively organized. This made the military discipline unsettled, notorious, and generally not high in fighting spirit. Always harassed by guerrilla warfare. The civil war broke out immediately after the War of Independence, and the anti-treaty army had an absolute advantage at the beginning, but in just a few months, from occupying most of the towns to the loss of heart and land, two problems were explained: First, military equipment is still very important. Yes, at that time, although the anti-treaty army took possession of the rifles left by the British army and took away most of the original guerrillas, it lacked artillery and other arms and lacked three-dimensional combat capabilities. Although most of the parties supporting the treaty were not Recruits with combat experience have received equipment supplies from the British army, their combat effectiveness has increased, and they have gradually regained important ground. The second ideology is also very important. At that time, the Irish people generally believed in Catholicism. After the pope publicly expressed his support for the treaty and punished those who opposed the treaty, the anti-treaty army immediately lost popular support (not as in the movie, although the facts are not It looks good, but the facts are facts), so the army was defeated like a mountain. Today, the civil war is still intriguing, because the people who supported the treaty were right. As their leaders said, the treaty “does not give all nations the most fundamental freedom they desire and pursue, but the freedom to achieve freedom.” Evolved into the Republic of Ireland. But the bloody infighting between comrades who once loved brothers and feet in those days is still thought-provoking. Simply put, the anti-treaty army fought bravely for a belief, and was finally defeated by the enemy's support of the treaty army. Then the supporter of the treaty army did not betray the republic as the anti-treaty army believed, but completed the opponent in the way they believed. They also defended their beliefs. However, Ireland has become independent, and Northern Ireland still belongs to the United Kingdom. It is their business to think about it.

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  • Chelsea 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    The master's brushstrokes and ease of melancholy, the whole text is a kind of broadness that we will never learn. Abandoning the political stance of war, he narrates a fate that human history keeps repeating, and a piece of land seems to be destined to experience secondary damage. . When the muzzle of the gun is aimed at the former comrade-in-arms from the opponent, when you have become the appearance of the former colonizer, when the former war for freedom also began to maintain the stability of the rule with violence, only knowing that the background of the war is only sadness, becoming a king The losers are not worthy of praise. After the smoke of gunpowder, only both losers. That year, a group of young people put down their clubs and picked up guns. Now that the gentle breeze blows through the valley, they have never returned. The camera is full of poetic melancholy. This time it has nothing to do with winning or losing or justice. Humanistic sentiments look back at the gatherings, separations and reunions along the way from a broader perspective. No matter how grand the change is, it is the little people who bear the price of sacrifice, no matter how ugly the civil war, After all, the goals pursued are no longer the same. War is ruthless, politics is ruthless, and none of this should be celebrated or compromised for peace. Human beings are always replaying history tirelessly, but they cannot see the underlying wounds behind the war.

  • Carmel 2021-12-26 08:01:08

    "The river in Ireland is salty; because it is the tears of the Irish." Only those who dare to face the truth of history have the courage to face the truth of today. The Wind That Shakes The Barley, the charming bagpipe accompanied by the husky voice of Dolores Keane, there is a little hope in the sadness. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTAzODQwNDA=.html

The Wind that Shakes the Barley quotes

  • Dan: Right. You're paupers, just like me. Take a look up and down this country and see the amount of volunteers that are involved in land seizures and cattle drives. Now do you want to know why that is happening?

    Teddy: That's enough of that now.

    Dan: It's not enough of it! The IRA are backing the landlords and crushing people like you and me.

    Teddy: You sat down with the IRA last night.

    Dan: I'm talking here!

  • Damien: We buried him in this chapel in the mountains. And I went down and... and I told his mother. His mother, who has cooked meals for me and her son. And when I told her she... she just looked at me. and then she went in and she put on her shoes. Then she came out and she said, "Take me to my child." And we walked for six hours and she didn't say one word. Then we got to the chapel.

    [sighs]

    Damien: And I showed her the grave. And I'd put a... cross and some flowers on it. And she turned to me and she said, "I never want to see your face again."

    [sighs]

    Damien: I've crossed the line now, Sinead.