Disney+ offers one of the most interesting and unnoticed series that can be seen right now: the adaptation of the book ‘Say Nothing’, by journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, Published in 2018 on the Ulster conflict. A complex and polyhedral study on the ‘missing’ victims of IRA and that serves Joshua Zetumer (‘Patriots’ Day’) to offer a rather faithful, but incomplete portrait, of the war that the terrorist organization and the British government fought. Interestingly, in the series, the case of a widow and mother of ten children who disappears in Belfast in 1972 after being accused of collaborationist is the door entrance to the conflict, but immediately her story gives way to that of the true protagonists: the Price sisters.
29 years after that fact, Dolours Price sits in front of a recorder to countless how were those years. His belonging to pacifist groups in his adolescence, his family linked to anger and his entrance almost by accident in the terrorist organization. A story that, as is told, claims more the role of women within the organization, than the political ideas that it supports.
In the 9 episodes of which it consists of nothing ‘, many issues are reviewed: the police repression of the Catholics, the intervention of the army, the theft of banks as a source of financing, the recruitment system, the treatment of the sneaks, the attacks, the hunger strikes in prison, the reintegration … but All this is done excessively clean, avoiding hard scenes visually or emotionally.
Nor is the pain of the victims reflectunlike ‘homeland’ where Fernando Aramburu manages to capture both realities, only one version, that of the anger is offered. It is true that the final message is that all those deaths were in vain and that many years of struggle were held on a lie, but a too romantic and adventurous image of some of the criminals is transferred.
The series is phenomenally built, It only has a small downturn in episodes two and three, but as it becomes darker and more introspective it wins in interest. It is quite faithful to the real facts and The cast, in addition to saving an amazing resemblance to historical characters (Dolours Price, Marian Price, Gerry Adams, Brendan Hughes, Stephen Rea…), There is a very high level; especially the two protagonists, Lola Peticrew and Hazel Doupe.
Is it worth seeing ‘Do not say anything’?
- A quite truthful portrait of the Ulster conflict.
- Peque try not to hurt sensibilities, he lacks rawness and offers vision only from one side.
- Great work of all actors.
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