The Wind that Shakes the Barley吹動大麥的風 (Ken Loach, 2006)
Country : Ireland
Score : 7/10
看了 ”Sorry we missed you” 再回頭找Ken Loach 2006 榮獲坎城影展最佳影片金棕櫚獎、歐洲電影獎最佳攝影、愛爾蘭電影獎觀眾票選最佳影片, 最佳影片, 最佳男配角的舊片，果然精彩！本片描述了1920年代愛爾蘭的獨立運動，雖導演Ken Loach是英國人，卻仍誠實陳述了大英帝國的壓迫統治與愛爾蘭被分化的悲哀，故事的主角是學成返鄉的醫生Damien，看到英國人對同胞的跋扈，放棄了行醫的光明前途，追隨哥哥 Teddy與一群愛爾蘭熱血青年一同加入愛爾蘭共和軍（Irish Republican Army-IRA）的游擊隊。串以愛爾蘭詩人兼作曲家Robert Dwyer Joyce所寫的愛國民謠
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
I sat within a valley green
Sat there with my true love
And my fond heart strove to choose between
The old love and the new love
The old for her, the new that made
Me think on Ireland dearly
While soft the wind blew down the glade
And shook the golden barley
Twas hard the mournful words to frame
To break the ties that bound us
Ah, but harder still to bear the shame
Of foreign chains around us
And so I said, “The mountain glen
I’ll seek at morning early
And join the brave united men”
While soft wind shook the barley
Twas sad I kissed away her tears
Her arms around me clinging
When to my ears that fateful shot
Come out the wildwood ringing
The bullet pierced my true love’s breast
In life’s young spring so early
And there upon my breast she died
While soft wind shook the barley
I bore her to some mountain stream
And many’s the summer blossom
I placed with branches soft and green
About her gore-stained bosom
I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse
Then rushed o’er vale and valley
My vengeance on the foe to wreak
While soft wind shook the barley
Twas blood for blood without remorse
I took at Oulart Hollow
I placed my true love’s clay-cold corpse
Where mine full soon may follow
Around her grave I wondered drear
Noon, night and morning early
With aching heart when e’er I hear
The wind that shakes the barley
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愛爾蘭最後在1937年通過公民公投愛爾蘭獲得了一個新的憲法，改名為愛爾蘭共和國，在1938終於真正脫離了英聯邦；而當初沒能加入自由邦的北愛仍然隸屬大英國協的自治地區，90年代仍為北愛獨立戰的IRA在 1997 宣佈停戰，2005正式終止武裝鬥爭，直到2016年的英國脫離歐盟公投，表決結果為英國退出歐盟，主張留歐的北愛爾蘭再次掀起脫離英國獨立和與愛爾蘭統一的聲浪。北愛的未來是脫離英國加入愛爾蘭共和國還是永遠為英國的一部分，只有未來的歷史有解。
