I watched Part 2 of this astonishing PBS documentary about the Troubles in Northern Ireland and it broadened the frame of the subject to encompass all sorts of motivations and limits of human behaviour. Victims and perpetrators of the horrors people endured are forced to relive those events. I was struck by their bravery and the bravery of the filmmakers who are picking at a wound - not to make the film sensationalistic (there is no need) but to dig into the depths of what motivates people to act as they do. And what about the aftermath? How did people survive in that situation and how do they live with themselves afterwards? In that sense it could have been set in Rwanda or Palestine or Syria or Viet Nam or any number of places. Redemption, when it comes, arrives in the form of black humour, and punk rock of all things. Artful truth about barbarism is an unresolvable contradiction. But this document achieves something hard-won.

https://www.pbs.org/video/do-paramilitaries-lie-awake-at-night-h8emz7/