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Bloody Sunday (2002)
Heart Stopping
This film is extremely powerful, in that it displays human emotion, nature and instinct - both good and bad forms of it.
Bloody Sunday is a documentary type film which gives the audience a feel of reality in how this one day led to thirty years of further violence culminating in the Good Friday agreement.
Having watched this film (as well as The Wind that Shakes the Barley), I feel, and I believe I have the right to use the word, 'disturbed' as the realness in the way it was made gives a heart wrenching feeling whilst watching the end scenes. Which I can admit I have kept until this day on watching this film, which in a sense, is a positive thing as it demonstrates the dynamics this film holds.
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Very Powerful.
This film was a close study film for my AS Film Studies examination, and I have honestly fell in love with it.
It sends a striking message towards how the 'not so better off' side of society have to live and perform their day to day routine.
Ken Loach is a director who's purpose is to point out these 'bad points' of life and show them in a different light so that everybody can relate and understand that dramatic lifestyle.
Martin Compston is amazing as Liam, showing humour, pain, humiliation and above all commitment to his chosen path.
I agree completely with Ken Loach's and Paul Laverty's disgust at the film being certified as an 18. I am 17 and can completely relate to the language used by the characters within the story - that is how teens today speak!