Under Pressure, from

Under pressure scene, from my movie The Silence of the Skylark (tit.or. Il Silenzio dell'Allodola) My first feature film as film director/scriptwriter. Inspired by the very tragic story of Bobby Sands, politcal prisoners who died in jail in 1981 when he was just 26, after a 66-days long hunger strike. In this scene, a sadistic prison guard enjoys abusing Bobby from a psychological point of view

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[davidballerini]

The conditions represented in the movie are actually a little bit better than reality though not like paradise (this because of several productve reasons that would be too long to explain here). THough you should notice (especially for the issue of dignity) that this scene takes place in a supposed early stage of the protest, while the book is a common day in a more mature time. Actually human dignity is the main topic of the movie

[Thuglordrpt]

This represented him as a nervous wreck, but on reading his book he was much more dignified and new exactly what he was doing. I understand you what youve already stated, but you contadict that when you use bobbys name etc. This movie made it look like paradise compared to real conditions. Although i admit it seems entertaining and you did do a good job overall from what i see.

[davidballerini]

From your answer, I understand that you haven't read the memories that inspired the movie... Would have you read them, you would know that the movie is far far softer, romantic and really not very sticking to the conditions of life in that jail. In this sense that movie looks more realistic in a sense but it's less realistic in another sense (which doesn't mean of course it be a bad movie, better or worse) Just, next time get more informed before speaking)

[irishrover1967]

thats completly wrong the film in the name of the father was shot in kilmainham jail in dublin so it was real life conditions even thought the prision is now closed

[davidballerini]

I honestly think that this universal thing is not "shit" (how irishrover1967 called it). By the way, I have to point out that, despites the clearly-non-realistic approach, the conditions of life in the jail are depicted in a much more realistic way in my movie than in apparently-more-realistic movies as for instance "In The Name of the Father"...

[davidballerini]

(continue from above) From this point of view, whether the cell or the uniform really looked like that is not that important. Indeed, I'm not either irish, and I was just a child when Sands died. I felt I was not really "allowed" to try to tell this story from a historical/realistic point of view. Despite the distance in time and space, though the memories stroke me. I felt something universal in them: it is what I tried to translate in the movie. (continue below)

[davidballerini]

The movie was not meant (clearily -if I can say -not meant) to be a historical representation of the real events. But it was meant to be a very real representation of the universal and human symbolic meaning of that story. The aim was taking a historical and political story and to pull it out of his context and to put it in the dimension of myth... making it a universal metaphor... (continue below)

[irishrover1967]

that was seriously aload of shit im from belfast and have loads of real footage of bobby and the hunger strikers and its nothing like that

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[davidballerini]

Thanks for your appreciation

[davidballerini]

thank you for your appreciation