The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
Direction
Steve McQueen's first film and he already knew: hold, hold, hold.
Acting
Fassbender's physical transformation is genuinely disturbing to witness.
Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt makes fecal smearing look like Renaissance painting.
Director
Steve McQueen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fassbender restricted to 600 calories daily for ten weeks, then did four-week total fast for final scenes. His mother visited set and cried.
The real hunger strike killed ten men and shifted UK policy; Thatcher called them criminals until the end. McQueen grew up hearing these names.
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