When your
motivation comes from a metaphysical reluctance for reality to be a
certain way, then historically that
kind of motivation has never produced the right answers.»
But no movie can maintain that
kind of momentum, and while the earlier scenes
of Hook's frightened negotiation
of streets which may harbour saviours or killers maintain a
certain tension, the plot loses focus a little when he finds refuge in the flat
of a former doctor and his daughter, and the story turns its attention to the political
motivations behind the hunt for the fugitive by both the British army and the IRA.
The piece has stirred all
kinds of debate about what the artist's
motivations could have been: Was this a coy way
of commenting on affirmative action, on the supposed «advantages» conferred on
certain underrepresented minorities?