The opening scene where the explosive is being mixed and the car number plates are switched was like looking through the bombers' eyes. Seeing a maroon Vauxhall Cavalier parked on the street, and hearing kids talking Spanish was like watching it happen again. That's what realism in film is about.
Of course this wouldn't have been shown in US movie theatres because it doesn't portray the IRA as swashbuckling heroes like "The Devil's Own" did, although "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" does that, and probably won't get shown either. I can't understand why anyone would need to have background information to the conflict in Northern Ireland as explanation- was Bloody Sunday justification for it? Judging by the number of Catholics killed and maimed in Omagh that day, I don't think so.
Of course this wouldn't have been shown in US movie theatres because it doesn't portray the IRA as swashbuckling heroes like "The Devil's Own" did, although "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" does that, and probably won't get shown either. I can't understand why anyone would need to have background information to the conflict in Northern Ireland as explanation- was Bloody Sunday justification for it? Judging by the number of Catholics killed and maimed in Omagh that day, I don't think so.