A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot (2017)
- Original title
- A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot
- Directed by
- Sinéad O'Shea
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows an Irish family in Derry over five years. The mother helped arrange a punishment shooting of her own son to keep him safe from worse violence. The film looks at how the Troubles still shape daily life and family choices long after the peace deal.
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What happens
A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot is a 2017 documentary film written and directed by Sinéad O'Shea. Filmed over a period of five years, it tells the story of the O'Donnell family in Derry. Their older son Philly had received a punishment shooting from a paramilitary group. His mother had helped organise it to prevent a worse fate happening to him. The film explores the effects and ramifications of this, along with the sociopolitical background of The Troubles in Ireland, which, however, officially ended in 1998, and how communities remain affected after the Good Friday Agreement. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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