504 - Hunger (2008)
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Director Steve McQueen\\u2019s first feature film goes deep into the circumstances of a series of prisoner protests in Northern Ireland in 1981. \\xa0With a clinical and procedural examination of their bodies both as sites of victimization and instruments of protest, the film considers the cruelty, strategy, determination and oppression of modern incarceration. \\xa0Among the inmates, Bobby Sands (played by Michael Fassbender) plans a resolute and deadly hunger strike until his republican brethren have their status as political prisoners reinstated by the British government. \\xa0But instead of dwelling on the politics of the time, McQueen methodically and unflinchingly catalogues the degradation of Sands\\u2019 body to the ravages of starvation.
If you\\u2019d like to watch ahead for next week\\u2019s film, we will be reviewing and discussing Jean-Luc Godard\\u2019s Made in U.S.A. (1966).
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