Starring: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham

Directed By: Steve McQueen

Hunger: In Dissociation

Bobby Sands feels grand every time. We are living in harsh times. The world is plagued with a lot of insecurities. Our identities have been influenced by our parents. We try sometimes so hard to make them understand who we are. But at times when movies like this come around it makes me ask myself why we even want to try?

Bobby Sands has realized death too early in his life to see anything that breathes. His ideals make him loose sight of all that is beautiful around this world. While his surroundings smells of the end of time. I am not sure how many of us are really going to relate to this utopian jail dweller. But somewhere in his thick sheen of despair there is hope. He sees everything does as a chance for new lives to cherish this earth in harmony. I began to detest the word harmony after seeing. How many lives do we have to see go for achieving this horrendous word? Do you really want to know what this movie cinematically achieves? Simple answer: Everything.

Flies laid to rest, tense knee jerks, cigarettes blown to ease the pain these are some of traits the film uses to show us points of view of each of these characters. The pain and suffering is pasted on the inmate’s cell walls. They try to forcefully clean the debris left by the prisoners. The prisoners are young men who try and shed light for their cause. The film has many references to some of Salvador Dali’s work. But the number of points of views used in this movie gives the movie a sense of dissociation from the central character. But it is not easy for one to forget this piece of art.

The film is affecting yet poignant in its steps to the end. The end is not sudden but still. We are left imbalanced with all that is going around. Michael who plays Bobby epitomizes Hunger. It is not just a hunger created because of the strike it is more to do with the pain he burdens with all the knowledge he has acquired. His life is not as complicated as it looks. But it is more of a simple test of what humans have to go through to become beckons for the rest of the world. Many would just right him off as a terrorist. But his own people would never see him in that light. For them he is their light.

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