Review of Bloody Sunday (2002) by Hugo S — 08 Nov 2009

BLOODY SUNDAY (2002).

Dir. Paul Grengrass.

Cast. James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard CrossanBloody Sunday tells the true story of the march turned massacre which took place on Sunday, Janurary 30th 1972 in Nothern Ireland. Originally people were marching for civil rights but its was declared illegal and the army showed up. After a few of them pretend they heard a few gun shots they open fire on civilians and then happens what happened.Paul Greengrass's film follows both side, the people marching for the rights and the army people setting their plans to stop them. It follows a few people on both side to make sure we wont get lost and its quite effective, even if its a bit too long and too slow to start.Bloody Sunday is one of those films, like Hotel Rwanda, its very frustrating, to see innocents being killed. It gets even worst when you see how the army tries to cover up their mess. People died on that day for no reasons. Its kind of amazing when you think about it cause you'd expect that kind of event to take place in the U.S. but it happened to Irish people.Bloody Sunday is shot with a hand-held camera making it look like a documentary and it works but there is something quite annoying about the editing.It is quite disturbing and movie. At the end of the film, they name all the real life victims which is pretty neat, then roll the credits, featuring a live version of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday. It had been a while since I watched the entire credits of a film.