Gritty and shocking

Rating: 9/10 (27 August 2004)

Great style to this film, makes you feel like you're one of the marchers or someone in the British hierarchy who made the decisions. I'm sure that's what the director intended. I was hit very hard emotionally from this film. I knew general information about Bloody Sunday, I'm of Irish heritage and still have quite a few relatives living in Ireland, mostly Donegal. From hearing their first-hand accounts of the happenings during the early 70's, I gathered a little more of a story-telling perspective of the Troubles, not one which was politically motivated as my relatives, and from what I've heard most Irish, don't condone ANY type of violence, whether it be anti-British or anti-IRA. I think this film carried off the events brilliantly, as gritty a look that I can remember. It's still shocking what occurred, but I, for one, can only look to the recent past and hope that all violence will end forever.