The Crying Game


The Crying Game is a 1992 Irish psychological thriller drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles.

At a fairground in rural Northern Ireland, Provisional IRA volunteer Fergus Stephen Rea and a unit of other IRA members, including a woman named Jude Miranda Richardson and led by Maguire Adrian Dunbar, kidnap Jody Forest Whitaker, a black British soldier, after Jude lures him to a secluded area with the promise of sex. The IRA demands the release of jailed IRA members, threatening to execute Jody in three days if their demands are not met. Fergus is tasked to guard Jody and develops a bond with the prisoner, much to the chagrin of the other IRA men. During this time, Jody tells Fergus the story of the Scorpion and the Frog.Jody persuades Fergus to promise to seek out his girlfriend Dil Jaye Davidson in London should Jody be killed. The deadline set by Jodys captors passes and with none of the IRAs demands being met, Jody is to be executed. When Fergus takes him into the woods to carry out the sentence, Jody makes a break for it. Fergus cannot bring himself to shoot the fleeing Jody in the back, but Jody is accidentally run over and killed by British Saracen armoured personnel carrier as they move in to assault the IRA safehouse. With his IRA companions seemingly dead after the attack, Fergus flees to London, where he takes a job as a day labourer, using the alias Jimmy. A few months later, Fergus finds Dil at a hair salon. Later they talk in a bar, where he sees her singing The Crying Game. ........

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