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What is Theme of McQueen's film Hunger?

  • World War II

  • American Civil War

  • The Irish hunger strike

  • The French Revolution

Answer

McQueen's film Hunger tells the story of Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army who died in 1981 after a 66-day hunger strike in protest of the British government's refusal to grant political status to Irish prisoners. The film focuses on Sands's final days in prison, as he struggles to maintain his physical and mental strength while his body slowly gives out.
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