ONTD Original: The Story Behind... "Hunger" (2008)

[rose_potion]

Do you ever watch a film "based on true events" and spend the next 2 hours looking for everything about them on the Internet ? Yeah, me too ! So I thought "why not share with the world what I'm obsessed about?".

Comments

[sluttyroyals]

This was a very informative post, OP! I know very little about the Troubles and this was a good jump start into it. Hope you don’t mind if I ask what books to pick up about it?

[rose_potion]

Thank you !
Well as a member said below, "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe.
"Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland" by David McKittrick and David McVea (McKittrick is a journalist and has worked on The Troubles' history since the 70's and McVea is a History and Politics graduate), McKittrick also co-wrote "Lost Lives" about them.
Bobby Sands himself was able to send little notes from his cell about his life and there are two books that combined them "Writings From Prison" and "One Day In My Life".

There are also some documentaries on YouTube about them.

[kampfbaby]

say nothing is soooo good

[ahkna]

I am loving this series, OP!

One of my fave things to do is look up the real historical details of movies.

[rose_potion]

Me too ! I'm always curious about a film based on reality, sometimes I regret reading when I need to sleep, ruins my night if the story is too sad.

[ginainabottle]

TIL that this isn't the movie where Michael Fassbender plays a sex addict.

[therearewords]

Hunger for something else, Gina.

[soul_amazinn]

Thank you because when I saw this post my mind immediately went to the sex addict movie 🤣

[marywebgirl]

LOL me too. I thought “Holy shit that was a true story?”

[sprty]

i remember really appreciating this when it came out but i haven’t seen it since. i’ll have to give it a watch again. i’m 25 and seeing those ages is even more jarring to me now than it was then

[bellwetherr]

i'm 31 and those ages really fucked me up

[therearewords]

I've always been baffled how little high school here shared about the Troubles. And that's in Europe! I wouldn't have known about it without the irish neighbours back home, I guess?

[rose_potion]

Yeah it's still hush hush, I'm French and I didn't learn about Ireland's abortion law and its consequences on women in school, it's so weird when the country is close to yours but it's still a stranger when it shouldn't.

[biene]

I live on the west coast of Scotland where its a struggle to find anyone who doesn't have Irish heritage (example my mum's parents are from Northern Ireland) and there was no mention at any point of the Troubles in school, even though these issues have bled through into our society even down to our two biggest football teams where sectarianism is rife.

but then I remember that the UK (even Scotland where we think we are better than the English on most things) like to play down our roles in most of the biggest conflicts in the world.