Jimmy’s Hall 2014 123movies

Watch: Jimmy’s Hall 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – 1932. Jimmy Gralton is back home in the Irish countryside after ten years of forced exile in the USA. His widowed mother Alice is happy, Jimmy’s friends are happy, all the young people who enjoy dancing and singing are happy. Which is not the case of Father Sheridan, the local priest, nor of the village squire, nor of Dennis O’Keefe, the chief of the fascists. The reason is simple: Jimmy is a socialist activist. So when the “intruder” reopens the village hall, thus enabling the villagers to gather to sing, dance, paint, study or box, they take a dim view of the whole thing. People who think and unite are difficult to manipulate, aren’t they? From that moment on they will use every means possible to get rid of Jimmy and his “dangerous” hall..
Plot: Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
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	6.7/10 Votes: 6,580
	76% | RottenTomatoes
	63/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 158 Popularity: 5.627 | TMDB

Reviews:

Very cool movie about fighting for your right to party.
Somewhere slightly better and more sophisticated than Footloose is Jimmy’s Hall. Based on a true story about an Irish country man who opened what was pretty much a community Center that allowed the folks of the village to educate themselves in arts and entertainment, but the Catholic church was not fond of people taking any sort of education out of God’s hands and into the hands of his children.

The movie really got my blood boiling even if it was very quiet and slow pace, but it hit some interesting marks about tolerance and freedom of expression. A condition needed by every human. I’m use to seeing rebellions in which people get violent in their protest, but this movie was very tamed, but more importantly, still got the message across.

My favorite part of the movie is the cool Irish music that was featured in the movie.

I like it a lot.

Ken Loach should move up to our modern times
Ken Loach is playing on our nostalgia and with his own not to regret or make us regret the past he is describing or the misery he is depicting but to make us feel relieved that all that has disappeared. Over and over again. Film after film.

Back to Ireland in the 1930s with flashbacks to the 1920s in a countryside rural parish that is entirely dominated by the catholic church under the responsibility of an old priest who is a fundamentalist. The area is also controlled by one clan of a family of landowners who owns everything and pretends to control the life of everyone. The priest does not hesitate to call the names of those he considers are doing some evil deed directly in the pulpit: he exposes his own parishioners if he disagrees with some of their actions. The landowner has a whole gang of guards and wardens that can use violence to impose the control of their boss. And finally the nazi party is developing in Ireland and trying to impose their rules.

In fact on this point Ken Loach is very nice: during the Second World War, the Republic of Ireland and the press there, including some intellectual or writers, decided to remain neutral in the conflict between Great Britain and Germany because of their hostility toward Great Britain: let Hitler give them a lesson, was the idea. This pro- German nazi ideology was quite common and was of course founding itself on a strict fundamentalist approach of the Catholic religion as the compulsory unique unifying element of the whole of Ireland.

The film tells the story of a young man, James Gralton, when he comes back from the USA and New York in the 1930s after having been forced to expatriate himself in the 20s by the same people as those hostile to him when he comes back: the catholic church, the landowners, the politicians and all those who have a little bit of authority or power. His crime was in the 1920s to have constructed a community hall where people taught poetry, painting and drawing, music, dancing, etc, freely and where he had balls every week on Saturday nights. He cut a very narrow escape in the 1920s. When he comes back ten years later, the young people ask him to reopen the Hall, and he does.

Then the conflict is clear because James Gralton has connection with the Irish Communists and so he is considered as persona non grata from the very start. They are just looking for the good excuse to get rid of him. The occasion comes when one night in the dark some fascistic Ku Klux Klan imitators burn the hall to the ground. James Gralton becomes a menace to public order and he is banished from Ireland for life and sent back to New York on the simple excuse that he has an American passport and hence is a foreigner. In other words he is denied his native Irish nationality.

When we watch that film and try to think about the period it depicts, the poverty and the exploitation it paints and the suffering it represents for simple, poor, ordinary working people, we feel the nostalgia about this period where courage existed and where the communist ideology was bringing some hope to the poorest among “us.” But the nostalgia is not meaning “That was a good time and it is a shame we have lost it!” The nostalgia is progressive: “Thanks God we have gone beyond that and left it behind: today we can enjoy our life without the constant control of the catholic church, without the dictatorship of landowners and politicians. We are relieved and reassured: that good old time is gone and gone for good and the incestuous, mostly pedophile relation with the catholic church is finished, terminated.” You can get the message.

Probably Ken Loach should maybe start moving forward to the approach of social, cultural and religious problems in the present context because at the time of the Internet no organization will ever be able to prevent me to learn something and will reduce my learning to what they want me to learn only and nothing else. And yet exploitation, dictatorship and control exist more than ever. Maybe Ken Loach should start working on that theme.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 49 min (109 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 4825184
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Biography, Drama, History
Director Ken Loach
Writer Paul Laverty, Donal O’Kelly
Actors Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry
Country United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan
Awards 2 wins & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Arricam ST, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, London, UK, Molinare, London, UK (digital intermediate), i-Dailies, London, UK
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format DCP