Greengrass has deliberately chosen to provoke an emotional rather than intellectual response with his film -- but sometimes provocation is much preferred to the British media's maintenance of the status quo.
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12/30/06
Bloody Sunday (2002)
92 %
Reviews Counted: 101 Fresh: 93 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 7.9/10
Consensus:
Bloody Sunday powerfully recreates the events of that day with startling immediacy.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis: In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' BLOODY SUNDAY, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. Surrounding a peaceful protest march staged in contest to British laws that permitted internment without trial, the film charts... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Kathy Kiera Clarke
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Whether you'd call this 'docudrama', 'faction' or 'factual drama', the result is enough to make you seethe with anger and moral outrage.
03/21/02
Goes some way towards explaining how the tragedy occurred and its enduring legacy today.
03/21/02
Top Critic
Forget about the controversy: this is visceral, rocket-fuelled film-making.
03/21/02
Top Critic
Greengrass' dramatic re-enactment, galvanised by documentary techniques, is so dense and alive with detail that it should be viewed attentively.
03/21/02
Top Critic
Greengrass sacrifices character and plot to a chilling impressionistic stylization.
03/11/08
Watching director Paul Greengrass's explosive Bloody Sunday, you have to remind yourself at moments that you're not looking at a documentary.
11/01/07
Bloody Sunday demonstrates an historical thesis formulated in retrospect, which fits oddly with Greengrass's continuous-present technique.
06/24/06
As atuações viscerais e a direção pseudo-documental recriam com contudência um dos episódios mais revoltantes da história da luta irlandesa contra a dominação britânica.
02/09/05
Captures the horrors of a civil rights march taking a wrong turn in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry on Sunday, January 30, 1972.
02/20/04
This is tragedy in its rawest form: bloody chaos I couldn't help but watch. . . . The tension is palpable and the brutality is immediate.
12/01/03
The audience is placed right in the center of events in a multi-sensual, horrific 'you are there' virtual reality of social protest that grabs you and never lets go.
01/19/03
The film exudes a universality that may apply to any conflict, especially any that provokes people to become killing machines in the name of nationalism.
01/08/03
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