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Five Minutes of Heaven

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Year: 2009
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Anamaria Marinca, James Nesbitt, Niamh Cusack, Conor MacNeill, Barry McEvoy, Juliet Crawford, Lalor Roddy, Mark Davison, Richard Dormer, Andrea Irvine, Paul Kennedy, Gerard Jordan, Jonathan Harden, Diarmuid Noyes, Paul Garret, Richard Orr, Ma
Genres: Drama
Runtime: 90 min.
IMDB: This film on IMDB
Last night's Five Minutes of Heaven was a Northern Ireland revenge tragedy. It was also drama's revenge on reality television. Its (rather audacious) insistence was that the dramatist has the better claim to the ownership of emotional truth than the documentary maker. The background to the director Oliver Hirschbiegel's film was therefore almost more interesting than the production itself for neither Alistair Little, as played by Liam Neeson, nor Joe Griffin, as played by James Nesbitt, were fictional characters. In 1975 Griffin's 19-year-old brother James really had been murdered by the 17-year-old Ulster Volunteer Force member Little. The writer Guy Hibbert spoke to each about how he would feel about meeting each other and then imagined the confrontation as set up by an earnest yet exploitative television documentary. The producers would have their notions of how such a meeting would go: apprehension beforehand, frostiness at point of contact, the suppression or, even better, the expression of anger, tears and, question-mark, forgiveness. Truth and reconciliation, co-opted as a TV format. Hibbert clearly thought such a triumph unlikely, not least because the two men had been haunting each other for 30 years. Aged 11, Joe Griffin had witnessed the murder of his brother, and Little had witnessed him witnessing it. The fear in the boy's eyes and the balaclaved stare of the killer were burnt upon each other's retinas. Little, although now in the reconciliation “profession”, was too far in a hell to believe that Griffin could offer redemption. Griffin, although now a family man, would still be too angry to offer it. Instead he would turn up with a knife that he would intend to use. His five minutes of heaven would be murder. The play had some nice digs at the sanctimony of the teleprofessionals so convinced that they were doing “important” work. When Griffin bolts from their artifices we cheer, not so much because his knife remains sheathed but because TV has been cheated of its award- winning five minutes. By dismissing television journalism, however, the writer and director set themselves very high bars and that they just about made it over them is in great part due to the impeccable performances of Nesbitt and Neeson. But the 85 minutes were uneven and, in tone, inconsistent. Oddly, the first third, starring Mark Davison as the young Little and Kevin O'Neill as the young Griffin, was the best, a documentary-style recreation of the killing but with dramatic grace notes. Little hides his gun in a toy box, suggesting that it is more a toy than a passport to adulthood. He poses in front of his bedroom mirror like a cowboy, as the present day Joe Griffin will later do with his knife. After the deed is done, he reports that he has “scored”, exactly the word Bruce Forsyth has just used lewdly on The Generation Game, the show that his victim had been innocently watching. In contrast to this suggestive opening, the middle section with the TV crew was actorly, demanding from Nesbitt long monologues and an unlikely speech in which he confides to a production runner: “Do I shake his hand or do I kill him?” The final part was better because it was cinematic and gave physical release to the piece's pent-up violence. When the two meet off camera, they fight viciously and fall together through a window to a street symbolically in the lee of a church. Later Griffin calls Little on his mobile phone to say: “We're finished”. This is not what the psychobabblers mean by closure but we understand that it is enough and that some things are beyond words.
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Filename: Five Minutes of Heaven 2009.avi (700.01 Mb)
Codec: XviD MPEG-4 (www.xvid.org)
Runtime: 81 min.
Video: 720x416; 25 fps; 1059 Kbit/s; Vbr
Audio: MPEG Layer-3; 48 Khz; 32 Kbit/s; Stereo; Cbr
Rip: DVDRip
Cost: $2.99
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