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The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 123movies

The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 123movies

War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.Mar. 23, 2006127 Min.
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Watch: The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O’Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he’s leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less than a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers..
Plot: In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O’Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend’s farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
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After watching The Wind That Shakes the Barley, I’m tempted to say that Hollywood ruined Cillian Murphy, but the fact is that this drama written by Paul Laverty and directed by Ken Loach doesn’t really establish, for better or worse, a before and after in the career of the Irish actor; it’s more a case of a blind squirrel finding a nut — which is still one more nut than most find (plus, Murphy’s range is undeniable, being able to convincingly convey both the most abject cowardice and the most selfless heroism, even within the same film, as he does A Quiet Place Part II).

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a group whose main characteristic is separation, especially from itself; Loach deals with the original breakup, resulting in the first two iterations the IRA, drawing a parallel with the story of two brothers who feel compelled to put ideology before family because each is convinced they bleed greener than the other.

It is said that history repeats itself; first as a tragedy, then as a farce. TWTStB follows this pattern, except that in the end the farce ends up being even more tragic than the tragedy. The first half of the film takes place during the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla war waged between 1919 and 1921 between the IRA and the British occupation forces in Ireland (which included Irish Unionists and Protestants, in contrast to Catholic Republicans).

The second part takes place during the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) which immediately followed the Anglo-Irish Treaty which resulted in the creation of the Irish Free State. Many of those who fought on both sides of the conflict had been members of the IRA during the War of Independence. The bitter irony is that an English character more or less foretells this when he says: “God save Ireland if ever the [Irish republicans] take control.”

I’m making it sound like a history class, but TWTStB is far from it; indeed, there is a lesson here, but it is a timeless and universal moral about the fratricidal nature of all wars. Loach and Laverty make their protagonists, Damien (Murphy) and Teddy O’Donovan (Pádraic Delaney) biological brothers to emphasize that all men — Irish and Irish, or even, why not, Irish and English — are brothers and, as As Donne said, “the death of any man diminishes me” because “no man is an island.”

Now, just because their characters are symbolic archetypes doesn’t mean that Murphy and Delaney just stand there holding signs that say “Cain” and “Abel”; the former in particular turns in a performance in which we can find shades of Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.

Review By: JPRetana

Intense drama about Ireland’s independence from the UK and the ultimate reasons for the need of freedom.
Review By: Andres Gomez
Great film
This is a truly great film and well deserving of the Palm D’Or.

It has been said that it is pro IRA or IRA propaganda. I disagree. In fact I think the reverse is the case. It shows up both the brutality of war and the even greater brutality of civil war that sets nation against nation and brother against brother. The film provides an understanding of how Ireland became independent in 1920-1921. It is well documented (e.g. visit the BBC or CAIN websites) that the Black and Tans were a brutal and oppressive irregular force sent to put down the rebellion. The IRA reacted with similar brutality. The film records both with equally graphic scenes. But that is only the first half of the film. The second half deals with the civil war. That’s even more tragic and brutal.

Who was on the right side or the wrong side? The film presents the arguments but I really don’t think the film takes sides. More of the anti British and anti treaty argument is advanced. But this is understandable because it is historically accurate that West Cost was ferociously anti British and mainly anti treaty. That’s why Michael Collins was destined to die there. And it is more important to understand why people/nations go to war or civil war rather than why they don’t.

Understanding the reasons does not mean support for war. The film highlights the futility and awfulness of war. Misery destruction and death. Is there such a thing as a just war (apart from 2nd World war)? Aside from the historical debate, the story, filming and acting is magnificent. Much better than the Green Berets on the just war by USA in Vietnam! Blackhawk Down brilliantly covered Somalia from the external US perspective. This film brilliantly covers the 1920/21 wars from the Irish perspective. We need all perspectives.

Well worth seeing with an open mind. Then read the history if you want.

Review By: briandelaney
masochistic and manipulative
I have seen many of Loach films, and I like them, some a lot! But this one, stands out for being one-dimensional and with a sledgehammer-like rhetoric.

So what do I mean? We get to follow a young man through the film, who only after five minutes into the film becomes convinced that an armed struggle is the best way to beat the oppression. Then the film follows his violent actions. And after many minutes (some with very masochistic and self-sacrificing violence) the British occupation force is ousted.

Now (at last) the film is getting ready to address issues of greater difficulty, because suddenly with the disappearance of the common enemy, the fighters start to disagree. Should the fight continue until a worker’s socialist republic is formed, or should a liberal democracy with some ties to the British (but not occupied) be accepted? Our protagonist chooses the former option. At this point in the film (unless the repetitive first hour and a half has bored you completely) the real challenge to the audience could be given: how can a people with different opinions on how to live and structure society, reach a common ground for their mutual existence, how should a socialist state deal with persons that does not want to join the collective, now when their occupier has left? The film has a clear answer: they are traitors, lets fight to the End! Here the personal drama, which is where Loach has his great power, is substituted for very simple political discourse. No intellectual “tension” is built up because the answer appears so simple… FIGHT!

And the ending… so masochistic! You almost wonder if the violence is the (erotic?) force of the film. Of all films Loach has made over the years, that this one would win in Cannes… well, you can not help but question the taste of the jury!

Review By: anderzzz-1

Other Information:

Original Title The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Release Date 2006-03-23
Release Year 2006

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 7 min (127 min)
Budget 6500000
Revenue 22889018
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, War
Director Ken Loach
Writer Paul Laverty
Actors Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham
Country Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland
Awards 7 wins & 24 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Moviecam Compact, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses, Moviecam SL, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, London, UK
Film Length 3,505 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 250D 8563, Eterna 500T 8573)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 123movies
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 123movies
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 123movies
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 123movies
Original title The Wind That Shakes the Barley
TMDb Rating 7.366 608 votes

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