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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 Dark and Tan British soldiers come 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 frail and the young. They beat and waste one man for refusing to give his name in English. When they bawl off, one brother, Teddy (Padraic Delaney), immediately helps gain 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 do his studies. At the issue site 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 exhaust 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 On the one hand, there will be an Irish Free Area with British troops withdrawn.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 piece 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 peek a civil war initiate, 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 plot, the other vows to fight until all Ireland is completely free.

One critic of the film said that “there isn’t grand nuance to either side.” That’s probably because, nurtured by dreadful actions and long memories, there wasn’t considerable nuance in loyal life. The Wind That Shapes the Barley is a dim, great and emotional film. It doesn’t shrinking away from the brutality and torture by British soldiers or the ruthlessness of the armed response. Most of all, we near 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 dim it makes you mediate on what you’ve seen. That’s not a unpleasant thing. Each brother in his possess device 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 correct love

My sunless heart strove the two between, the stale fancy and the current love

The outmoded for her, the current that made me reflect on Ireland dearly

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

‘Twas hard the woeful words to frame to demolish the ties that accelerate us

But harder smooth to gain the shame of foreign chains around us

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

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

While gloomy 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 right 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 apt love’s clay wintry corpse where I burly soon may follow

As round her grave I run 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 magnificent cinematically and the acting very convincing, although I did assume 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 comely obliging background in Irish history, especially of the 1910-1922 years, he is likely to have peril notion what is going on and why. The film is narrowed so sharply to one dinky group of guerilla fighters in Cork County that I don’t know how an average viewer could save 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 substantial plus, is that it shows graphically the kind of savagery being engaged in by the British soldiers (the “dismal and tans” who were sent in to encourage the regular British forces in Ireland) and the galvanizing do 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 assist the novel Irish Free Position, feeling that it was a sell-out to fetch anything but complete freedom for the whole island. The movie does a top-notch job of showing how the two sides could differ so drastically and aloof 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 memoir, as another reviewer said, and it leaves you feeling very depressed to realize what their independence ultimately brought the Irish, i.e., families torn apart forever, scars great 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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