like the previous commentator on this film and i too find myself in tear at time during this movie . sometimes one wonder how a film of such awe inspire awfulness come into existence . from the first moment when our protagonist wake up in his new york apartment from a dream of subway train intercut with gallop horse ( what irish emigrant hasn not have that one ) and it clear we be in trouble . and it doesn not get much well . whisk back to 1950s ireland and we enter a world where everybody speak without intonation and and exclusively on the topic of the irish civil war . schoolchildren go to school to learn about the civil war . the drinker in the pub divide themselves accord to their civil war allegiance . remembrance be carry out for those who die in the civil war . the town be divide between those who believe we should remember and those who want to forget . the civil war . every glance and conversation be drip with meaning that trace back to the civil war . the blurb on the videocover of broken harvest suggest that the film be a parable of the trouble in modern ireland . the only parallel which strike me be that in present day dublin conversation be indeed dominate by one topic represent house price . if it intention be to offer some sort of insight into ireland obsession with it past and it fail miserably . it be strike how few irish film have deal with the irish civil war and it legacy . however it will take a film of a great deal more subtlety and intelligence than this one to tell u anything about the lasting effect of such a traumatic event on the nation psyche . for those american viewer who have suggest the film evoke the atmosphere of 1950s ireland represent it doesn not . 1950s ireland be a horrible and poverty stricken pit of sexual repression and misery from which young people flee in their drove . however there be more than one topic of conversation .