Lyra (2022)

Lyra (2022). 1h 32m

“This is a well made documentary on the life, career and death of Lyra McKee.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMs. McKee was killed during a protest in 2019 when a police reform protester fired a .22 pistol in direction of riot police hitting Ms. McKee. I remember in my city in the US a very similar incident a bit over a year later, when an anti police protester during the same type of anti-police 2020 riots in the US, threw a brick at police hitting and permanently blinding a bystander. Also in summer 2020 in the US we had police shot at by the same type of u0026quot;police reformu0026quot; rioters and others hit as well.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film is well paced. One gets a sense of the victims life and challenges, and her achievements accomplishments, and lost potential.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile the broader global context of the disgusting anti police views of the violent protesters, be they those in this film or the Molotov throwing Antifa type thugs we broadly saw in the US in summer 2020, or the people committing violence arson elsewhere in Europe at the time, is present and implicit, that context could have been more broadly explored.”