![]() Yet director-cowriter Steve McQueen elides Sands’s presence for much of the film’s first half, focusing instead on the. Five strangers struggle when a madman imprisons them in an underground dungeon in this nail-biting horror. Hunger’s ostensible protagonist is IRA member Bobby Sands (Fassbender), the brains behind a 1981 hunger strike at Northern Ireland’s Maze prison, which resulted in his death (after 66 days) and made worldwide headlines. ![]() ![]() I wouldn't suggest Hunger for the casual viewer, but if you don't mind watching lower budget films, it's definitely worth a try. With Lori Heuring, Linden Ashby, Joe Egender, Lea Kohl. The 2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards were held on Saturday 5 September at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand.The craft awards were presented in a separate awards lunch at the Civic Theatre Friday 4 September. It's right in the middle for me, a solid 5 out of 10 stars. While this film could have been much better, it also could have been much worse. After such a time period of starvation, no one gets nearly as fatigued as they should have. ![]() There are some poor directorial choices (like opening the film in complete darkness with only the victim's voices to assure you that your screen isn't messed up) and after weeks of being trapped underground the captives still look pretty fresh despite having no hair brushes, razors, or food. The premise is interesting, the acting is pretty good for a low budget film, and it focuses more on human behaviour than the gore fests that this has often been compared to. A man, who as child ate his mum after an accident, takes five people captive and leaves them with only water and a knife to research how long it will take for them to give in to cannibalism.
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