Hunger, a film (Steve McQueen)

Hunger is a film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike by the Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Written by Enda Walsh and Steve McQueen, who also directed, it premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and won the Caméra d'Or award for first-time filmmakers.

The imagery in this film is haunting. The naked, bony bodies of the proud, defiant men. The ugly brutality of the conditions. The visceral pain. The hunger epitomized in the starving body of Bobby Sands. A film that is riveting and difficult to watch.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which one of the characters is furiously angry and powerless against the forces at work in the scene or other characters.