Only JFK said it better...

Rating: 8/10 (4 January 2004)

`Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable'. Those words of JFK were what I thought of as the credits came on after this film. To me the message of the film albeit unintentionally was that those British soldiers shooting some protesters helped the IRA rise. It is hard to express 800 years of oppression and resistance in one film based on one day.
I think this is an important film. As someone who has seen this types of protests with heavy police and military presence this film was very nerve wracking to watch. The use of non-actors and nothing but hand-held was bold and not always effective. In a film of less importance I probably would have been turned off.
The story and the film maintains a constant energy and as someone who understands what is about to happen it creates a unique kind of tension. Not unlike titanic in the way you knew that big ass piece of ice was coming.
Considering what just happened in American anti-globalization protesters recently in Miami and the continued escalating of repression by the American government the American left should pay close attention to this film. Here in San Diego the police spent the first few weeks of the invasion of Iraq beating protesters over and over. And on the last anniversary of September 11th I attended a candlelight vigil where we were monitored the whole time by snipers.
As I watched Bloody Sunday this part of what I thought of. This is a important film.