I was very interested in watching this film because while working for a B.A., majoring in English, at the University of Wisconsin, USA, in the late 1940s I was greatly taken with the group of modern... Read more
poets led by W.H. Auden. I squeezed into a full classroom to hear Steven Spender read some of his own poetry, when he visited our campus. C. Day-Lewis was the Irishman in this group. I assume the main character in this film was his son, though the only son named in my Oxford Companion of English Literature is Sean. C. Day-Lewis was a very different kind of man from the father in this film.The times and events of this film are very sad, so I can't say I much enjoyed it. Even though I watched alone, at home, I found tears trembling on the edge of my eyes several times. It certainly conveyed the terrible situation of natives of Ulster, not part of the independent Irish Republic, but still disputed over by their brothers in it and their protectionist overlords from England.