Hunger Details

Stunning

McQueen is an artist, and this film is a work of art. With little dialogue, Hunger is comprised of striking images. Harrowing at points, it offers beauty in the most alienating and unexpected places. Hunger is not I believe didactical, prison guards and prisoners alike suffer. It could however, be argued that the strategic use of Thatcher's terse uncompromising voice over emotive scenes undermines the higher political processes. Which is bound to aggravate Thatcherites!

All-in-all it must be seen by anyone seriously interested in cinema as an art form. It is demanding, and slow-paced, if you are a hardened fan of blockbusters this will not tick your boxes.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Deeply thought provoking

Speaking as someone who was one of the potential 'innocent' victims of IRA bombing in the City of London at that time, I could never understand why more of us were not killed & maimed.

Watching this film totally reinforces that view.

These oppressed people appear to have far more spirit than anyone I have met in my life.

If even half of the treatment claimed to have been inflicted on these people is accurately portrayed, and I believe it must be much more, if not all of it, from what I recall of that time, then it's a total wonder that such extreme motivation was never used to more disastrous effect in the attacks in the UK.

The inmates were at war with the overwhelmingly more powerful british government & people and convenient idiotic labels like 'terrorist' to describe the enemy's behaviour merely serve to highlight that this has for so long come down to a 'might is right' situation derived from the lowest elements of the human condition. The resulting sheer hopelessness that results both then and throughout the world now in inevitable until the weaker side (the defiant Irish) are worn down & bribed with the material instant gratification that serves to fill most of our lives.