Brain Keenan and John McCarthy were held hostage in Lebanon for five years; this film, based on the writings of both men, tells their story. Keenan (played by Linus Roache) in particular makes for an unlikely hero, a brave but prickly Irishman, but the movie shows how the two supported each other through their long imprisonment. What it doesn't quite do is capture the emotional impact of the boredom, fear and claustrophobia it depicts the two men as suffering: this may be because it lacks the courage to restrict the audience's view of that of its protagonists (they are often blindfolded, but we always see what is going on). But there are some interesting insights into the psychological relationship between captors and captives; and, against the odds, an eventual happy ending.
Review of Blind Flight
