Talkie Zoo: FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN

As disturbing a movie as I've seen since Schindler's List, this film looks at the impact a gang related murder has had on both the brother of the victim and the victim's murderer, 25 years later. Five Minutes of Heaven (2009; R) refers to what the victim's brother would have if he killed the assailant.

It was filmed like a documentary, with the camera persons being required to hold the cameras, follow the actors, walk in tubs or anyplace else where the cameras could be held on the actors and still allow them a natural movement around the sets.

It's not a glamorous movie or flashy in any way. It just looks into the hearts and souls of people involved in the incident, and taps into their secret imaginations of how the murderer thought his life would be better...and how the young brother of the victim bore a burden of guilt because he couldn't save his older brother from attack.

It speaks to the turmoil in Ireland between Protestants and Catholics, which is not dissimilar from civil turmoil in any land where one group of citizens thinks another group of citizens is the enemy. It also speaks to the pain and loss on both sides.