Analyse of the Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley The wind that shakes the barley is a film do of Ken Loach, the film are made in 2006 Setting The wind that shakes the barley takes place in Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) and it is a real story. later World war 1. Put a stopper for the home rule bill in Ireland at that place came English soldiers into Ireland and treated the Irish people genuinely bad. Then some of the Irish people got upset and began to fight back. ResumeThe film takes place in the Northern Ireland in the twenties, during IRAs fight against the British trespass of Ireland. The brothers Damien and Teddy ODonovan join a rebel movement with some friends, after(prenominal) Damiens failed take in charge to escape to London to become a doctor, and after British soldiers assassinateed a very good friend of his. The group is the start of the Irish peoples rise against the British invasion, and many people starts joining gr oups just uniform theirs. They get caught by the British, and Teddy gets tortured by pulling out his nails, to make him say names, but he doesnt reveal his secrets to anyone.Afterwards they fetch Damien in. The boss threatens to eliminate Damien if he does not tell him about who helps them, but Damien is silent and gets thrown back into the cell. The young soldier who were supposed to shoot Damien helps them escape, but since he has no key to the last cell, three of the captives get left behind. The others escape in a horse drawn carriage and stay in a fiddling house while Teddy recovers. When Teddy is ready to travel again, they go to some reliable friends to live for a while.Here they find out that one of Damiens oldest friends Chris Reilly, a young guy who worked on a British farm to earn money to his family, was the one telling on them, and got them sent to jail. They receive orders to kill both Chris and Sir John, and Damien shoots them. Later he talks to his sweetheart, Sin ead ni Shuilleabhain, about the shame in facing Chris mother. After IRAs defeat on a British convoy, some other detachment sets fire to Sineads house as payback, and shaves her head while pointing a gun at her. Damien and the others see it all from behind a hill, but there are nothing they can do about it.The British are too many. When the British leave, Sinead is still deeply in shock, and while Damien comforts her, a messenger arrives with the message of a formal ceasefire between Britain and the IRA. The whole village celebrates, but not for long, because they find out about the Anglo-Irish treaty, and the IRA divides in two groups. Teddy is done fighting and accepts the treaty. He and his allies start patrolling in Irish Army-uniforms. Damien and his friends will not accept the treaty and joins the Anti-treaty IRA.Damien gets caught and his Anti-treaty friend Dan was killed in their attempt of stealing weapons from the British army. Characters Damien is a newly graduated docto r from college. You can see he is a recent graduate because in the film he is relatively young, and refers to himself as Medical graduate from college. His brother named Teddy. Individually, they represent a position in relation to how Ireland should be free Damien will fight by political means, and Teddy will struggle with violence. Which is typical in societies with war, there will always be different opinions on how to solve the conflict.