NOn to say nothing
Type: historical drama
Director: Anthony Byrne, Michael Lennox, Mary Night, Alice Seabright. With Lola Pettyw, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Josh Fin, Maxine Peake. On Disney+
Jean McConville was a young mother of ten children in the Belfast of the early seventies. He was taken in his home by a commando dell’Ira and made to disappear, accused of collaborativeism; His body was found in 2003.
From this tragic and disturbing episode the US series starts Don’t say anythingfurther support for the reconstruction and understanding of the “Troubles”, The low intensity conflict that bloodied Northern Ireland for thirty years, since the late sixties at the 1998 peace agreements.
A moment of “don’t say anything”, set in Northern Ireland (Photo of Rob Youngson/FX).
Don’t say anything Play on two time plans: On the one hand the terrible seventies with the attacks of the organization close to the claims of the Republican Catholics and the violence of the British army and the “loyalist” paramilitary groups, and on the other, the present day with a reference to the Belfast Projecta project of oral history of the University of Massachusetts aimed at recomposing the facts and wounds of an era.
To filter both these looks is Dolours Price (Lola Peticrew as a young man and Maxine Peake as an adult) who tells an interviewer the details of Ira’s activity. Price is a figure that really existed in angerfirst woman together with her sister Marian to take on a leading role in the organization.
For those interested in deepening a forgotten war in the heart of Europe.
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