Balanced?

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2006)

Depending on your political leanings this film will attract the usual comments of it been Anti British or it will favour a republican stance. But looking at the film it shows the brutality of both sides in that it covers the Civil War side which employed equally brutal tactics as that of the British. The film may have tended to show more of the actions of the Auxies rather than that of the Tans who were attached to the R.I.C and who were more numerous than the Auxies and probably much more active. The political arguments in my opinion were probably more one sided to the anti treaty people but from my point of view and maybe Ken didn't mean it this way? there was brutality on all sides.