The Wind That Shakes the Barley

If your goal in life is to criticize, you are a coward hiding. There was much emotion captured, bravery, passion to be free, confusion, integrity, betrayal, the roles of women feeding, carring information, and guns was a nice touch, honor, ethics, generosity, humility, tragedy, horror, tenderness. The horrors the Irish experienced at the hands of the tan and blacks, was depicted here up close and persona. Not on some grand billion dollar budget film. I did not need the film to be anymore or less than it was. I was able to hold space with it. It was sometimes hard to watch, as cruelty and war up close and personal, are. But it, to me, is an important film. After the treaty signed and the film watched, it is LIE that you need watch no more. And whomever said they are bored, has no heart or soul for thse who suffered. Those kind of reviews are appauling. The struggle between the English, wealthy Irish, the weak minded, and the poor, the principles, and the divergence between Teddy and Damien, up to the last second of the movie is extremely important. Spoiler alert. I hope the Teddy's of the real story were huanted for the rest of their lives. Thanks to the director and all the actors; inclulding Cillian. Bless you. Xoxo

i had to stop watching it. just to boring for me

The level of senseless brutality depicted is staggering; and there are no figures to warm up to because there's no character development. Just boring scenes of men aimlessly walking back and forth across the screen, punctuated by excruciating stuff, like a guy having his fingernails pulled out one by one etc. etc. etc.

Did not like at all!!!! Especially the main character - although the story was compelling wrong actor for the part and very thick accents made it hard to understand that is until they all of the sudden stopped using the accent!

This was a great film. With gore, violence, profanity, romance, it shows how even in the darkest of times in the Irish revolt against the British, that hope can be found.

This is a great movie. It shows how the british treated the Irish in the 1920. It is also one of the more unbiased films.

this is a great movie if you like irish films. its all about how the English treated the Irish in the begin og the 20th cent. must see...

When we are driven by our deepest motivation to find real truth and gain our freedoms we should not be moved, but we should however look forward when conscious human condition in chaos self-torments. Sometimes we must live with the small defeat, and wait to rise and win the WAR. Men without resources are as good as puppets played by the hands manipulating the hanging strings. We can choose to be the puppet for awile until the hands become too tired and the strings too tense to sustain the show. It is when these strings break, that the soul of the still puppet is transformed. Sometimes in death there is freedom and in others, defeat, but it is our choices and the relevance of those choices which can make us truthfully worthy in the fight for our freedoms. An excellent movie with catastrophic consequences, and the plight of the human condition when at WAR. Eventually freedom has its price.

This movie brings you to the end of the War for Irish Independence and clears away anything you thought was black and white and replaces it with painful gray.

...but the wheels come off this movie quicker than some of the treaties they depict. As soon as you see them watching a News reel about the events of the day you can turn the movie off it's done. There's even one scene at the very end where it was just obvious they ran out of money.