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| 3 | A 1990 political thriller film centered upon UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, directed by Creator/KenLoach and starring Creator/FrancesMcDormand and Creator/BrianCox. |
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| 5 | [=McDormand=] plays Ingrid Jessner, an American human rights activist whose colleague Paul Sullivan (Creator/BradDourif) is killed while investigating allegations of criminal acts by the British government in Northern Ireland, such as the murder and torture of IRA suspects. While in the company of an IRA sympathizer who claims to have knowledge of doings even shadier than this, both are shot to death by masked gunmen. In the aftermath, police claim they ran a barricade and were lawfully fired upon. Inspector Peter Kerrigan (Cox) is sent in from England to investigate, as it's felt the locals are too compromised. A tape recording is discovered that reveals a conspiracy at the highest levels of the British government... |
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| 8 | !!This film provides examples of: |
| 9 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Kerrigan is blackmailed into silence and Harris, the man who supplied the tape, has been murdered thus he's unable to authenticate it. [[TheBadGuyWins The conspirators get away with everything, in short]].]] |
| 10 | * GovernmentConspiracy: First with the cover-up of Sullivan's murder, which itself was to cover-up an ever ''larger'' conspiracy inside of the British government. |
| 11 | * MysteriousInformant: Captain Harris, who claims to have been with British military intelligence and have information in the form of a tape recording that shows a conspiracy high in the government. |
| 12 | * WriterOnBoard: The film is pretty obviously a TakeThat against the government of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, going much further than most. [[spoiler: The plot involves a conspiracy where she, with the aid of factions within big business and the military, used black propaganda to discredit Conservative Party leader Edward Heath so she could replace him in 1975. After this she was successfully elected Prime Minister, taking hard-line measures to fight their foes: the labor unions and IRA.]] |
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