Film Society Blind Flight Screening Saturday 28 October 2023
The Film Society Screening of Blind Flight Saturday 28 October 2023 The Film Society recently enjoyed a sell-out screening in the Mountbatten Room of the film biopic ‘Blind Flight’. Based on the best-selling accounts of John McCarthy and Brian Keenan, the film recalls their plight as hostages held in the Lebanon for more than four years during the 1980s. Following this powerful and moving film the audience were joined by John McCarthy and Director John Furse for a Question and Answers session.
The Film Society Screening of Blind Flight Saturday 28 October 2023 Story Line Keenan and McCarthy spent four and a half years confined together, held underground for much of their captivity, at times chained to each other and to the walls of their prisons. The two men, who could easily have found themselves at opposite ends of a gun barrel in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, instead forged a relationship which transcended all that appeared to divide them. Blind Flight tells the story of this compelling relationship as they both resurrect their deepest memories, feelings, fears and loves. In their near biblical journey, they uncover many of the forces which made them blind and captive human beings prior to their physical captivity. They finally discover a compassion for their captors which makes the film a 'love story' in the fullest and most humanistic sense.