The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) starring Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald. In the 1920s in Ireland, a young doctor (Murphy) is radicalized by the fight against the British oppressors, and gradually goes over to being a Republican guerilla fighter. Frankly, I found the politics hard to follow, and the uniforms of the British hard to distinguish from the later uniforms of the Irish. This is an intense drama, with deep feelings on both sides, but here we are clearly supposed to sympathize with the Irish. I did. (Subtitles in English for the hearing-impaired are available.) Grade: B+