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Hunger (2008)

Idealism is a phenomenon increasingly observed less frequently. The proliferation of these men and women who pursued with fervor for social change in the second half of last century, faced with the disappointment of socialism and the rise of savage capitalism, a system that eventually absorb the once idealistic.

Nevertheless, sometimes resurface men willing to sacrifice their lives for a cause they consider just, but to be driven by the passion and exuberance of their ideas leave the idealism to take on terrorism.

Steve McQueen, London artist thanks to his video installations won the prestigious Turner Prize, has created a tape Hunger exemplary in many ways without fear of addressing the complex issue of terrorism and the perceived desire to tell a fact from the most comprehensive historical objectivity.

The film chronicles the struggle of a group of members of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), which under the orders of the idealist / terrorist Bobby Sands, struggling from prison to maintain its status as political prisoners that Prime Minister of England Margaret Thatcher, decided to withdraw from considering them as criminal as the rest of the prisoners.

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is the way McQueen gives cohesion to the story, which is divided into two main parts almost completely devoid of dialogue, linked by a bridge that consists of an impressive sequence, where the main role is shaped throughout the footage is set aside to launch the viewer in a dialogue in one take, which leaves it completely overwhelmed by its complexity histrionic and prepares for intense film's conclusion.

Last McQueen art serves to create with Sean Bobbitt sequences that revel in using the human body as a canvas is torn, it becomes deformed and shit, urine and wounds, reaching levels of crudeness plastic which could well have come from the mind of Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud.

Hunger also discover the talent of Michael Fassbender, who will undoubtedly become one of the greatest actors of his generation and already had the opportunity to notice in the later Fish Tank (2009), but whose portrayal of Bobby Sands is a true master class in performance, which shows the physical and mental challenges that you can submit a player truly committed to their role.

Winner of the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Hunger is a film that puts Steve McQueen as a most promising directors in England and he paints a faithful portrait of the nonsense or sense to shore us the passion for an idea.