Hunger is the feature film debut of director Steve McQueen. This is not, however, the film of a novice. One immediately feels the confident tone of this film, and it doesn’t take long to appreciate that this is a movie made by a visual artist (McQueen is an accomplished artist and the 1999 recipient of Britain’s esteemed Turner Prize.) The film revolves around the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike with a particular focus on the man who organized the strike, IRA soldier Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender.) This is not a film with the usual trappings of a biopic or historical film, though. We are not inundated with historical context, back-stories, and “significant anecdotes” about the characters’ lives. Instead, the audience is simply asked to bear witness to what occurs on the screen.
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