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The true story of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy's extraordinary relationship as hostages of militias in Lebanon during the 1979-91 Civil War.
Blind Flight
2003 Directed by John Furse
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Despite being interested, thanks to Robert Fisk’s Pity the Nation, in the events that transpired in Lebanon during the eighties, Blind Flight is one of those films that you can’t help but question the value of. It is all executed very well: the performances are superb, the camerawork and lighting effective, and the script does a surprisingly good job of extracting a certain structure from what is basically two men in a room for ninety minutes (though the score is perhaps a little heavy-handed and reliant on sustained ominous bass-notes). But, ultimately, what’s the point? It’s very interesting to see how the two men interacted with each other, but one imagines that their own written accounts (both of which are…
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After watching Argo, I thought i'd rewatch this, the story of Brian Keenan and John McCarthy's friendship after being held hostage for years in Beirut. Very Touching.