I don't want to start talking about politics, it would take me too far, so let just stick at the movie. I rarely saw a movie with so little dialogue and so much meaning, so many things said with images. So clearly violent and so intimate. So political and so private. It seems impossible to tell so much without words, we're no more used to this. Director Steve McQueen did it in a terrific way, with just a long one-shot, quickly talked sequence between a first and a last part of silence, just broken by violent outbursts of noises, by shouts and beatings. Hidden violence, senseless violence, carried on within the walls of a prison where every dignity and pity are dead. In this, the formidable performance of Michael Fassbender. His bright look, the steadiness in his eyes will follow you for a long time after the end of the film. You will find yourselves begging for somebody to feed him, to save him, so true and unbearable his pain is. Forget Robert De Niro, forget Al Pacino - there's a new great, huge actor in town.
