It's easy to know what you're against, quite ignorant to know what you're for.

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2010)

"It's easy to know what you're against, quite ignorant to know what you're for." One funny thing about life is that the story which has torn your heart apart ten years ago may just as well make you laugh today. Yes you can say that time is a thieve, but while he's taking from you, he's also giving you back, though not exactly the things you want. So little by little, you've been changed into a another character even yourself couldn't understand.
Everything in The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a total mess, war, freedom, country, love, brotherhood... It left an impression that all is in vain, the world only takes away what is precious and beautiful and leaves behind the broken remains, yet those remains have to carry on. What happened in Ireland nearly a century ago looked quite familiar to that in China thirty years ago, reckless young men throwing their lives for unrealistic dreams, but no one would or could moan for them. Maybe one day someone will.
Life could always rip our those unyielding souls, but we just know better than that to compromise in time, getting rid of the dangerous part and play a good guy. After all the wounds have healed and been forgotten, the destruction that was done to you would be recalled as the wind that shakes the barley.