Comments on: Film review – Hunger (2008) http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/2008/11/18/film-review-hunger-2008/ Film reviews, criticism and discussion by Thomas Caldwell Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David H. Schleicher http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/2008/11/18/film-review-hunger-2008/#comment-1780 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:05:41 +0000 http://cinemaautopsy.wordpress.com/?p=485#comment-1780 Great review…there was something dehumanizing about the first 3rd of the film, which was visually arresting but also distant. I didn’t understand who or what the story was about yet…though the harrowing details of the way the prisoners dehumanized themselves in the wake of such brutal dehumanization at the hands of the prison/gov’t was clearly central.

But then I loved how McQueen turned the story on its head and played with viewer expectations. The conversation between Sands and the priest was a master-class in filmmaking and dialogue construction. And those final moments when Sands imagines himself back in those woods he told the priest about…astounding.

A great, challenging, hard to swallow film.

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