Now I have to admit while watching the movie, I hated the unsteadiness of the camera and the fact the whole film was skipping scenes abruptly. It made me feel uneasy seriously. It was interesting that the British army just lied about the protesters that some of them had firearms. I bet when they told the police about what happened, I say inside, they were peeing their pants. The ones who killed those unarmed citizens should be in jail for live. It was such a cowardly action to just kill whoever was on their path, the 14 people who died that faithful day, didn't deserve this. The families should've been given a apology like a year after it happened. David Cameron (Brexit Escapee) shouldn't be the one giving it 38 years later, it should've been the army. To be honest, that was wayyyy too late, it won't bring back the victims. I honestly can't imagine how stressful and upsetting it is for the families to have their loved ones being killed in a pointless act. Also the ones who miraculously survived and will remember this tragedy for the rest of their lives. May the 14 men rest in peace<3

Paul Greengrass has made a provocative drama documentary of the events in Derry in January 1972 which is to this day still an open wound.The film with its numerous quick edits covers events over 24 hours from Saturday evening with its main character Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt), a Protestant MP for the Social Democratic Labour Party and leading a peaceful anti-internment march which developed into the Bloody Sunday massacre on 30 January 1972.Most of the 10,000 marchers that day would be Catholics, some with IRA links. Cooper wanted to develop a pan religion civil rights movement to counteract the violent nationalist and loyalist groups.Intercut with Cooper organising the march are the British troops setting up roadblocks and barricades to prevent the march going much further due to newly introduced restrictions on marches.When some rebellious youth start to to throw bricks at the troops they are met with a disproportionate response as the army shoot at some of the protesters which lead to thirteen people being left for dead.The events ended up being a prime propaganda tool for the IRA. It turned many of the Irish against the presence of the mainland troops and set back the civil rights movement and any hope of a peaceful resolution to the Troubles.Greengrass's documentary approach does not leave much for characterisation. Apart from Cooper, many of the people are painted in broad strokes with Tim Piggott-Smith's Major Ford being the main hissable villain.Greengrass also does well to recreate the early 1970s setting and look. The editing might be jarring but the art direction, costumes and make up are well realised.

I wanted to see Bloody Sunday because it was the first film directed by Paul Greengrass, one of my favourite directors working today thanks to his efforts in the likes of his three BOURNE films and UNITED 93. I'm pleased to report that Greengrass's trademark stylistic touches - shaky, hand-held camera-work, sudden zooms, a documentary-like feel - are all present even at this stage, making for a film that looks very good.The story itself is the true-life tale about a notorious massacre perpetuated by British soldiers in Northern Ireland in 1972. Everybody knows what happened - much as in UNITED 93 - but Greengrass's gritty realism makes this a hugely suspenseful tale without having to rely on the usual suspense-building tactics like ominous music and the like. Greengrass is content to let the tale tell itself, and the film works well as a result. He's also careful not to take sides, showing the reality from both the British and the Irish. Some fine performances, including a career-best James Nesbit in the closing scenes, round out a solid effort.

Bloody Sunday is about the shootings dead of 14 civil rights marchers by the British army in derry during the conflict in NI. 90% of those killed in the conflict were killed by paramilitaries. However film-makers have decided to make a film about one of the few atrocities committed by the security forces.The film is co-produced by an IRA sympathiser called Don Mullan. He has described the IRA campaign as a reaction to the violence of the state.The propaganda line put forward by this film is that the nationalist community tried peaceful means for achieving civil rights but were just met by state violence and that the British crushed NICRA (as the CRM was called).This contradicts with the facts. In order to get the viewer to believe this the film tells a number of lies 1. Ivan cooper says at the beginning of the film that there were no reforms introduced prior to 1972. This is a flat out lie. Loads of reforms had been introduced beginning in 1968. One man, one vote had been introduced, the B specials had been abolished for example.2. Ivan cooper says at the end of the film that the civil rights movement had been destroyed. This is a flat out lie also. NICRA disbanded voluntarily in the early 1980's. The viewer is therefore misled into believing that there were no longer any peaceful alternatives to violence.The film is extremely anti-British. One piece of anti-British hate-mongering is the message at the end that those who planned the operation were honoured by the queen. It is true that two of the senior officers in charge of the operation were later honoured by the queen. However no one who carried out any of the shootings or ordered any killings were honoured by the queen.Do not believe the lies in this film. The brits were working on setting up a power-sharing arrangement at the time. What was planned was an arrest operation not a massacre as is implied by this film. Everyone of NICRA's demands were introduced by 1975. There were other options available to nationalists other than violence, contrary to the lies in this film!