All we're changing is the accents of the powerful...
Loach offers us a story all-too-scarce in cinema: one which is unapologetically revolutionary in it's portrayal of the plight of the occupied. No compassion is given to contemporary liberal musings of non-violence nor revisionist delusions of the brutality of imperialism.
The hypocrisy of revolution lies not within violence, but rather in the betrayal of breath and of voice. The violence of the oppressor and the violence of the oppressed can never…
