Hunger is about the brutality of sectarian violence, competing interests, bloodshed, and war. It chooses no sides, but instead puts at the center of its characterization a limpid sensitivity to the human individual, be he an Irish Republican or a devout Ulster Loyalist. The film is shot through with glittering images of the solitude and the sensitivity of a prisoner in whose sun-deprived fingers a fly finds its way, the lonely life of a prison guard whose days consist in checking for car bombs and brutalizing prisoners in between smoke breaks, and the gritty wasting away of a man that has devoted himself to what he believes is right—his own…