too Painful to Watch.

Hunger was the debut full-length movie for Steve McQueen, and it is one of those movies where you have to watch it because it's a debut for a promising director, but it just burnt into my mind, to be honest i wish that i haven't seen it, it was too painful to watch.

It tells the story of Bobby Sands, an IRA (Irish Republican Army) member, who were imprisoned in HM Prison Maze, and was leading the prison into a hunger strike demanding the Special Category Status, which is a status in which he should be treated as a political prisoner not as a criminal and should not be wearing a prison costume.

The movie starts silently for long time, with no dialog, just capturing the suffering and the violence inside the prison, how the prisoners were treated and how they exchange messages and fight the system, and it was very hard to get through the beginning, because it was kinda disgusting and had so much violent, brutal scenes, but that was the tip of the iceberg for what's coming up next.

The entire 96 minutes had one very interesting 15 minutes dialog, a conversation between Bobby Sands (played by Michael Fassbender) and a priest (played by Liam Cunningham), more than 10 minutes of that conversation was shot one take only, and that was really impressive, although, they starts slow talking about irrelevant things, but then the priest tries to convince Bobby not to go through with the hunger strike, and it was really amazing, it made me question the amount of dialog an actor can memorize and deliver in one take.

Steve McQueen does a fantastic job capturing the changes on Michael Fassbender body as he go through with the hunger strike, and Michael Fassbender lost so much weight to play this part, add some make-up, scares and tortures remarks and that image will be burnt in your mind, it was so disturbingly realistic, that it made me feel sick, i actually felt sick watching it, i remember feeling that way when i watched 'Requiem for a dream', and although it showed devotion from the actor, and talent from the director, but i don't think it was that necessary to show someone dying from hunger exactly like what it would look like if it was really happening, but if you're familiar with Steve McQueen, you'll know that he would go as far as he can just to get his point across.

Overall, the movie was really painful to watch, but that doesn't mean it's bad at all, if anything, it was incredibly realistic and disturbing, and for a debut film, this is really impressive work, although, i would appreciate it a lot better, if the director gave us a little background as why is this happening, he did gave us an introduction to the story but that doesn't explain everything, i had to read about it to fully understand the situation, so he lose a point for me, because he just assumed that everybody knows about the conflict between the IRA and the British government.

6/10