In+the+name+of+the+father,+summary

This film is based on a true story from the IRA era of Ireland, when it was a conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants. The story is about what it’s like to be suppressed, and how it feels like when your voice is ignored when it’s supposed to mean something. The film starts with some revolting between the IRA and the English army. The year is 1974, Northern Ireland wanted to be an independent country, but they had a split-up between Catholics and Protestants that made total chaos and England was trying to get the entire Ireland under its power. The Irish fought for their country, but civil-bombs and stone-throwing were not enough to keep the Englishmen out of their country.
 * Summary of “In the name of the father”**

In the film we meet Gerry Conlon, a rebellious Irish kid. He and his family lived in Northern Ireland, Belfast. One day Gerry decides to go with his friend Paul Hill to England. Gerry Conlon and his friend Paul Hill, fed up with the life in IRA-era Belfast, they moved to London and joined the hippie scene. In London, there was at this time a bomb, set up by some IRA members. Gerry and Paul became suspects in the case, even though they didn’t have anything to do with it. They were simply on the wrong place at teh wrong time. They were being forced to tell the police that it was they who made the bomb, even though they didn’t do it at all. After an unfair court, Gerry, Paul, some of their friends and even Gerry’s father, Giuseppe Conlon were thrown in prison. They did not have anything to say for themselves, just because they were Irish and could possibly be a part of the IRA.

Gerry sits in prison for 15 years before he and all the other convicts of the case get another court. At last, they gained their justice, after a lawyer found a piece of evidence the first court didn’t mention; an alibi. A man with the name Charlie Burke, a homeless man they happend to meet in a park when the bomb exploded. Even though Gerry got out of prison and got the justice he deserved, he continued fighting to get the justice his father never gained, since he died in prison and never was able to get out and enjoy the freedom he desurved. He did it because of his father,because he also deserved the justice he never was able to have. In the name og the father.