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Director Oliver Hirschbiegel, producer Eoin O’Callaghan and actor James Nesbitt gave a press conference to discuss their film Five Minutes of Heaven at the Kursaal yesterday. It offers a different take on the legacy of the Troubles by focusing on the idea of whether reconciliation between two men from opposite sides of the struggle is possible at all. Producer Eoin O’Callaghan revealed that although the main characters are real, only the first 25 minutes of the film were totally accurate, as in real life (unlike on screen) it has proved impossible to bring the two of them together, as the hatred the victim feels for his brother’s murderer is so intense that they were even unable to watch the finished version together.
The film has been shown on British and Irish television and has been well received, perhaps because it provided a different approach to violence and vengeance that offered a chance to move on from the age-old questions. James Nesbitt revealed he had met his character, Joe, before he made the film and confirmed that he was as extreme, damaged and bizarrely articulate as the writer had captured in his script. He also claimed that the film wasn’t about reconciliation but self-reconciliation with your own past.
Hirschbiegel noted that it was gratifying to see that the reaction to the brief up surge in violence in Northern Ireland earlier this year showed that it was quite clear that the whole society had at last moved on.
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