Very moving film

Rating: 7/10 (26 November 2010)

This film brought much passion and anger in me the first time I saw it. Gerry Conlon is arrested, tried and convicted of an IRA bombing in 1974. By all means, he was and is not perfect. He has robbed a prostitute, he was not always respectful of his family. That does not make him or his friends IRA bombers.
He spends 15 years in prison, as does some of his friends. His father, Guisseppie dies while in prison. He had been ill prior to all of the 1974 occurrences. When Gerry is finally freed, he is older, different, more grown up. How could you not expect a major change, given all he experienced? The soundtrack is very good, especially to someone who grew up with Irish freedom music. My father taught how bad policies were and I took a class to learn more about it. He always had a name for the English government aka "the bloody Brits". He always had respect for the people, not blaming them for a bad government.