2002 · drama · historical
Bloody Sunday
Directed by Paul Greengrass1h 47m2002
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Our read: Bloody Sunday (2002) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded drama · historical entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / historical, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
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