![]() These questions also resonate in the Irish author Emma Donoghue’s fascinating novel “The Wonder,” about a different sort of self-imposed starvation in a different sort of Ireland. What does it mean to give up the most basic human need in the service of something greater than yourself? Is it an admirable stand, or an abomination? And if you’re an outsider presiding over someone not-eating himself into oblivion, do you have the right, or the obligation, to intervene? ![]() ![]() That scene - 22½ harrowing minutes, 17½ of them in a single take - appears in “ Hunger,” Steve McQueen’s 2008 movie about how people can turn their bodies into tools of protest and, more profoundly, about the philosophy and morality of fasting. The other is Father Moran, a Catholic priest, who is trying to talk him out of it. One is the Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands, who is preparing to starve himself to death. ![]() Two men sit across from each other in a Northern Ireland prison, locked in an argument so intense it feels like hand-to-hand combat. ![]()
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