Hunger(2008)
Steve McQueen’s is less a traditional biopic and more a visceral, sensory meditation on the limits of the human body and the weight of political conviction. As the directorial debut of a Turner Prize-winning visual artist, it eschews standard Hollywood pacing in favor of a grueling, atmospheric immersion into Northern Ireland's Maze Prison during the 1981 hunger strikes. The Physicality of Protest
The film is famously split into three distinct acts, each focusing on the "tactile effects" of a political stalemate: Hunger(2008)