Midway through this film about Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish nationalist prisoners to die in the 1981 hunger strike in the North of Ireland in a bid to reclaim P.O.W. status from their British jailers, Sands (Michael Fassbender) tells a priest about a trip he took as a boy.
Sands was a cross-country runner in school Father Moran (Liam Cunningham) says this explains a lot and at 12 crossed the border to lush, green Donegal, a chance to run against boys from the Irish Republic and Protestants too. Immersed in countryside unlike industrialized Belfast listening, you feel this was his first naked contact with his own land hed gone for a warm-up jog in nearby woods along a stream...
