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DEBATE & POLEMIC

RAGE & REASON IN A WORLD OF MANIFESTOS

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Uniformity & Control

+Introduction

Uniform: not changing in form or character; remaining the same in all cases and at all times.

Uniformity: The quality or state of being uniform

Conformity: behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards

Control: 1 the power to restrain something, esp. one's own emotions or actions. 2 maintain influence or authority over….

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+Black Sheep

+Prison Uniform

+HungerThe subject of the film is, in part, the refusal of the prison inmates to wear the prison uniform and the power of using the body as a weapon. "Turning their violence against themselves".

+Uniformity & Control in Hunger

00:08:41 (Political Violence) – Voice of Thatcher, leads into prisoner arriving and refusing clothes.

00:34.33 - given uniforms (clown uniforms) leads in to 36.10 - arrival of prison guard – violence (fighting against the law and order)

01:06:45 - Hall mopping scene (example of uniformity versus non-conformity).

00:25:31 - Bobby sands - caveman - Samson loses his hair. Christ re-born.

00:30:43 - Bobby Sands - Christ and the apostles at the last supper.

Leads back into 'caveman' imagery. Solitude. Ideology of a primitive soul.

+Uniformity, Control, Identity

The author – lacks identity connection

Not Irish, no Irish connection

Trepidation about how a Black Englishman could/would interpret the Irish Troubles.

A ‘corrective’ gesture. Based on how Bobby Sands was portrayed in the media…

Possibly a redundant argument, the film’s success attests to that.

+Steve McQueen – Queen & Country

+"I'm a geezer, I'm an artist, that's all I am. I'm not in a position to influence. Other people are. What we need is people with balls, in life, in politics, in anything.

If everyone sits on the fence then nothing happens, nothing moves, so we stay right where we are." Is he being cleverly diplomatic? Passing the baton?

Steve McQueen - Manifesto?