The Crying Game (film)
An unlikely friendship develops between a kidnapped British soldier (Forest Whitaker) and his captor, an IRA volunteer named Fergus (Stephen Rea) in Neil Jordan’s classic, The Crying Game.
When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus (Rea) escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out and begins dating the soldier’s lover, a hairdresser named Dil (Jaye Davidson), who knows nothing about Fergus’ IRA background. But there are some things about Dil that Fergus doesn’t know either.
Winning Jordan an Oscar for Best Screenplay, his landmark film is a skillfully written examination of race, gender and national politics that questions the audience’s assumptions and behaviours just as it does those of the characters, with one of the most notorious twists in cinema history.