Online comments on bloody Sunday

I revisited bloody Sunday. Although it was not as shocking as the first time, I noticed more details this time. Paul greengrass, the director of this film, is a journalist. When shooting this film, he used a hand-held camera and live sound to "truly" and accurately reproduce the whole process of 1972 when the British suppressed the civil rights movement in northern Adelaide in a semi-documentary way. A large number of vivid details in the film can easily arouse the emotional input of the audience-condemnation of violence and sympathy for the killing of innocent civilians, and I am also moved by it, hehe. In fact, the incident itself is very controversial. Northern Ireland and the British military have their own words, and both believe that the other side "fired the first shot."

Although in recent years, more and more evidence shows that this repression may be a planned massacre by the British government, the truth has not been fully revealed. The tendency of this film is to stand on the standpoint of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and think that the British government's killing of innocent peaceful demonstrators in Northern Ireland is a response to this civil rights movement. However, the background of this incident itself is very complicated, and the conflicts between various forces are also very subtle. Northern Ireland and Britain are not monolithic. Before the civil rights demonstration, the British government issued a statement warning Northern Ireland not to demonstrate, and hinted that it would take extreme measures to deal with it. There seems to be no direct mention of this statement in the background film, but according to the general who later participated in the command, it is likely that the large-scale terrorist activities of the Irish Republican Army have made the British government uncomfortable. Another reason may be that the British government needs to please Protestants in Northern Ireland (while Northern Ireland Catholics supported by the Irish Republican Army have deep grievances) in order to gain political support.

For the upcoming civil rights demonstration, the colonel and elite British paratroopers sent to Delhi advocated resolute suppression; However, in Delhi, the police have been in contact with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Party, believing that the upcoming parade is peaceful and does not need to be suppressed; The leadership of the local garrison is ambiguous. He himself does not advocate cruel repression, but under the pressure of his superiors, he constantly gives orders passively during the development of the parade. There is also a soldier in the British paratroopers, the main force of repression. Throughout the process, he constantly questioned the necessity of action, including questioning his companions who shot unarmed civilians.

Within the leadership of civil rights in Northern Ireland, members who are Protestants advocated changing the route of the procession after learning that the road was blocked, while the other two still followed the original route at first.

There are IRA (Irish Peace Corps) and hooligans (hooligans) waiting for trouble in Northern Ireland, and most of them want to adopt a non-violent approach. However, it was precisely because of the troubles of the Irish Republican Army and hooligans that some demonstrators changed their routes and directly clashed with British soldiers, giving British paratroopers an excuse to go out and suppress.