The Merkinist

This 23-minute dialogue between Michael Fassbender, as Bobby Sands, and Rory Mullen, as an IRA Priest, in “Hunger” is one of the most captivating scene I’ve ever seen on film.

Director Steve McQueen holds on the the hardened and impassioned prisoner Sands, sitting across from the weaker (or more rational?) priest for what feels like ages, their features only just visible in the darkened cavern of a room. Their silhouettes are lit, almost on fire, until the camera finally moves right on Fassbender. He’s possessed by his mission, years of struggle, hatred, sacrifice and abuse swirling into an undertow that has pulled him out far beyond the shores of timidity. 

That video, when it’s over, should provide links to parts two and three up top.