He wipes her fingerprints off the gun, replaces them with his own, and allows himself to be arrested in her place. Fergus prevents Dil from shooting herself and tells her to go into hiding. After finally killing Jude with a shot to the neck, she then points the gun at Fergus, but lowers it, saying that she cannot kill him because Jody will not allow her to. Dil shoots Jude repeatedly, telling her she is aware that Jude was complicit in Jody's death and used her sexuality to trick him. The vengeful Jude enters Dil's flat with a gun, seeking to kill Fergus for not participating in the assassination. Jude and Maguire shoot the judge, but in turn, an armed bodyguard shoots and kills Maguire. Holding Fergus at gunpoint with his own pistol, Dil demands that he tell her that he loves her and will never leave her he complies, and she unties him. Dil, drunk, appears not to understand however, in the morning, before Fergus awakens, Dil restrains him by tying his arms and legs to the bed with stockings, leaving Fergus unable to complete the assassination. Fergus stays with her, and admits his role in Jody's death. The night before the IRA mission is to be executed, Dil gets drunk and Fergus escorts her to her apartment, where she asks him to never leave her again. She forces him to agree to help assassinate a British judge, and mentions that she knows about Fergus and Dil, warning him that the IRA will kill Dil if he does not cooperate.įergus continues to woo Dil, cutting her hair short and dresses her in Jody's old cricket uniform as a disguise to shield her from possible retribution.
Around the same time, Jude unexpectedly reappears and tells Fergus that the IRA has tried and convicted him of treason in absentia. A few days later, Fergus leaves Dil a note in her mailbox apologising and the two reconcile despite his initial shock at Dil being transgender, he is still taken by her.
An initially repulsed Fergus rushes to the bathroom to vomit after hitting Dil in the face, and then leaves her apartment. Their relationship progresses, but when the two prepare to become intimate in Dil's apartment, Dil reveals her transgender status while undressing. Fergus, consumed by guilt over Jody's death, pursues Dil, protecting her from her obsessive suitor, and soon begins falling in love with her. Later, they talk in a bar, where a drunken customer torments Dil, and Fergus follows the pair, who return to Dil's apartment for sex. With his companions seemingly killed in the attack, Fergus flees to London, where he takes a job as a day labourer using the alias "Jimmy".Ī few months later, Fergus finds Dil, working as a stylist at a hair salon. However, a British armoured personnel carrier, while moving in to attack the IRA safehouse, accidentally runs over and kills Jody.
When Jody tries to escape, Fergus pursues him but cannot bring himself to shoot the fleeing man in the back. The deadline set by Jody's captors passes with their demands unmet, and Fergus is ordered to take Jody into the woods to kill him. Jody gets Fergus to promise to seek out Jody's girlfriend Dil in London should Jody be killed. Jody tells Fergus the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog. While Fergus stands guard over Jody, the two bond, embarrassing the other group members. They ransom Jody for the release of an imprisoned IRA member, threatening to kill him in three days if their demands are not met. In 1999, the British Film Institute named it the 26th-greatest British film of all time.Īt a fairground in rural Northern Ireland, a Provisional IRA volunteer named Fergus and a unit of other IRA members, led by a man named Maguire, kidnap a black British soldier named Jody after a female member of their unit, Jude, lures Jody to a secluded area by promising sex. Fergus is forced to decide between what he wants and what his nature dictates he must do.Ī critical and commercial success, The Crying Game won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, alongside Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Rea, Best Supporting Actor for Davidson, and Best Film Editing. Fergus later develops an unexpected romantic relationship with Jody's lover, Dil (Davidson), whom Fergus promised Jody he would take care of. The film follows Fergus (Rea), a member of the IRA, who has a brief but meaningful encounter with a British soldier, Jody (Whitaker), who is being held prisoner by the group. The film explores themes of race, sex, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Crying Game is a 1992 thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley, and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown, and Forest Whitaker.
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