Yes, a good movie
Added 8/20/2009
1. Other's have written at length regarding the various merits of this movie--> I'm just seconding what many others have already noted--> this is a very good movie, with little faults. It should be well worth most folks time / energy.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
|
One of the best movies ever!!!!
Added 8/3/2009
Simply stated this is one of the best movies ever.
A phenomenal story about family and character.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
|
mounting disgust
Added 4/16/2009
When those who know what is most troubling try to summarize the disturbing aspects of what they face, "In The Name Of The Father" is the kind of movie that dramatizes the kind of reality people wish to escape. Any call for silence in the courtroom is most likely to be sincere when the comments of an attorney who discovered a file that was not to be shown to the defense underscore how rotton the core of courtly assertions has often been.
Like appreciating that Martin Luther was considered a criminal for being a heretic after openly opposing attermpts to shut him up, the idea that Saint Paul police twisted the arm of some radio news host in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in September, 2008, is as easy to understand as Jack Ruby catching Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Station in November, 1963, just a few weeks after what happened to Diem and Nhu in Vietnam and days after what happened to President Kennedy, if you understand how the police are likely to treat anyone they can hold for seven days in a situation that allows the police to control the mounting disgust.
This movie makes it all happen for me. It shows the schismatic max.
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
|
A stunning film about injustice
Added 11/4/2008
This is a brilliant film, which shows the appalling events behind a major miscarriage of justice. I found it very moving, and thought the acting and directing was excellent.
This is something I would recommend to anyone.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
|
20 stars!
Added 7/31/2008
I bought this film as soon as it came out on Video. I've watched it through about 20 times & have watched certain scenes over & over. The scene in the prison when Gerry Conlon's father is put into the same cell with his son is riviting. Day-Lewis's emotions build from confused to irate to explosive. Pete Postlethwait's sad, shocked reactions work perfectly with Day-Lewis. Throughout the film, these two work off each other--from lackadasical youth shunning his father's advice to mature, driven young man determined to be free. My Dad is 1/3 Irish & my mother 1/2 Brit. So I've got a war going on inside me which sometimes blasts out like Gerry: "Delayed shock! I've been this way since I was 7!!!" The musical score is brilliant. Also, I'd advise you read the book by Gerry Conlon. He is honest & straightforward. It's not just Britain that imprisons people wrongly, America has Quantanamo Bay. This is a cautionary tale for the justice system which should be shown to students of history in every high school, as well as to every civil servant--from Parliment to Senate to Congress. As Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young sang "Battle Lines Being Drawn, Nobody's Right if Everybody's Wrong."
1 out of 2 people found this helpful.
|
Yes, a good movie
Added 8/20/2009
1. Other's have written at length regarding the various merits of this movie--> I'm just seconding what many others have already noted--> this is a very good movie, with little faults. It should be well worth most folks time / energy.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
|
One of the best movies ever!!!!
Added 8/3/2009
Simply stated this is one of the best movies ever.
A phenomenal story about family and character.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
|
mounting disgust
Added 4/16/2009
When those who know what is most troubling try to summarize the disturbing aspects of what they face, "In The Name Of The Father" is the kind of movie that dramatizes the kind of reality people wish to escape. Any call for silence in the courtroom is most likely to be sincere when the comments of an attorney who discovered a file that was not to be shown to the defense underscore how rotton the core of courtly assertions has often been.
Like appreciating that Martin Luther was considered a criminal for being a heretic after openly opposing attermpts to shut him up, the idea that Saint Paul police twisted the arm of some radio news host in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in September, 2008, is as easy to understand as Jack Ruby catching Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Station in November, 1963, just a few weeks after what happened to Diem and Nhu in Vietnam and days after what happened to President Kennedy, if you understand how the police are likely to treat anyone they can hold for seven days in a situation that allows the police to control the mounting disgust.
This movie makes it all happen for me. It shows the schismatic max.
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
|
