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Ireland in the early Twenties exploded into armed rebellion against the British. Two brothers at first made opposite decisions. A group of Murky and Tan British soldiers advance at a farm where the brothers and a group of other young men are resting after a hurling game (something like field hockey) . The British terrorize everyone there, the men, the women, the mature and the young. They beat and slay one man for refusing to give his name in English. When they bellow off, one brother, Teddy (Padraic Delaney), immediately helps beget the men into armed resistors. Damien (Cillian Murphy), a medical student, decides to go on to London to a prestigious medical school where he is enrolled to attain his studies. At the remark state he witnesses another group of soldiers attack and beat the train’s conductor and engineer. The attacks are filled with screams and rifle butts. Damien returns to the village and joins the armed resistors.

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From then on we’re in the middle of a rag-tag guerilla war, driven by a stern sense of justice and a determination to force the British out of Ireland. The British spend wide-spread intimidation, brutality, imprisonment and executions by courts martial. Some of the men we’ve met die, British soldiers die, hostages die, traitors die, a young friend of Damien’s who gave information is executed by Damien. He slowly moves from a reluctant fighter to a man who has become single-minded in what he does. When a truce is declared and a peace treaty is finally agreed upon in 1922 between the British Government and Sinn Fein, the stark reality of compromise splits the fighters. On the one hand, there will be an Irish Free Residence with British troops withdrawn. On the other hand, it will be a member of the British Commonwealth, an oath of allegiance to the British crown will be required and Northern Ireland will remain an integral portion of Britain. Is this what we fought for…to give allegiance to the British, many ask? What we fought for was independence and in most regards we have it, say others. Ireland must be whole, say some. If we don’t agree the British will flood the island with their troops, say others. We spy a civil war inaugurate, with Irishmen taking up arms and killing each other. For the brothers, who once fought the British together, it means a crucial split. One fights to set down the rebellion against the newly independent Irish residence, the other vows to fight until all Ireland is completely free.

One critic of the film said that “there isn’t mighty nuance to either side.” That’s probably because, nurtured by unpleasant actions and long memories, there wasn’t remarkable nuance in valid life. The Wind That Shapes the Barley is a black, remarkable and emotional film. It doesn’t horrified away from the brutality and torture by British soldiers or the ruthlessness of the armed response. Most of all, we approach face to face with both the courage and the grime needed by the Irish to finally, after centuries of ruthless, condescending oppression, rid most of the island of the British. The acting is uniformly persuasive, especially by Murphy and Delaney as the two brothers. Cillian Murphy, in particular gives a subtle and mesmerizing performance. The brothers’ fate may not be tragic but it is so dusky it makes you consider on what you’ve seen. That’s not a poor thing. Each brother in his possess scheme pays for the choices he makes.

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And the title? It’s from a 19th Century poem that tells of a young Irish boy who soon will leave his sweetheart to join others fighting the English in the 1798 rebellion. They would carry barley in their pockets as provisions on the march. When they were slain and their bodies pitched into unmarked mass graves by the English, from their bodies the sprouting barley came to symbolise that Irish resistance to the British would never die.

I sat within the valley green, I sat me with my legal love

My gloomy heart strove the two between, the dilapidated worship and the unique love

The outmoded for her, the fresh that made me contemplate on Ireland dearly

While soft the wind blew down the glen and shook the golden barley

‘Twas hard the woeful words to frame to rupture the ties that slip us

But harder quiet to absorb the shame of foreign chains around us

And so I said, “The mountain glen I’ll explore at morning early

And join the doughty united men,” while soft winds shake the barley

While unlit I kissed away her tears, my fond arms round her flinging

A yeoman’s shot burst on our ears from out the wildwood ringing

A bullet pierced my honest love’s side in life’s young spring so early

And on my breast in blood she died while soft winds shook the barley

I bore her to some mountain stream, and many’s the summer blossom

I placed with branches soft and green about her gore-stained bosom

I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse then rushed o’er vale and valley

My vengeance on the foe to wreak while soft wind shook the barley

But blood for blood without remorse I’ve taken at Oulart Hollow

And laid my lawful love’s clay icy corpse where I elephantine soon may follow

As round her grave I slouch drear, noon, night and morning early

With breaking heart when e’er I hear the wind that shakes the barley.

I looked forward to this film as I do to any that attempts to shed light on the struggle of the Irish for freedom from England. The movie is sparkling cinematically and the acting very convincing, although I did consider Cillian Murphy somewhat miscast as Damien, the young doctor who is reluctantly converted to the IRA cause by the British brutality he witnesses. However, overall I found the movie disappointing for somewhat the same reasons as reviewer Pouliot. If the viewer does not have a resplendent apt background in Irish history, especially of the 1910-1922 years, he is likely to have grief conception what is going on and why. The film is narrowed so sharply to one tiny group of guerilla fighters in Cork County that I don’t know how an average viewer could set the action in perspective with the 1916 Easter rebellion, the nationwide struggle going on, the direction and control being exercised by IRA leaders in Dublin and the overall scope of the fight against the British. The biggest plus of this film, to my mind, and it is a very sizable plus, is that it shows graphically the kind of savagery being engaged in by the British soldiers (the “shadowy and tans” who were sent in to assist the regular British forces in Ireland) and the galvanizing finish it had on the Irish populace. It also shows the tragedy that befell Ireland when the independence movement came apart after the Treaty was signed and the die-hard Republicans refused to aid the novel Irish Free Space, feeling that it was a sell-out to gain anything but complete freedom for the whole island. The movie does a capable job of showing how the two sides could differ so drastically and quiet each have legitimate reasons for taking the stance they did. It also drives home how devastating the Civil War was in the final wrenching scenes of what devotion to their beliefs cost the two brothers. This was certainly a singularly Irish yarn, as another reviewer said, and it leaves you feeling very discouraged to realize what their independence ultimately brought the Irish, i.e., families torn apart forever, scars powerful deeper than any the British left and a shadow that hangs over the land even today. A haunting if not fully satisfying film.
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