WTF did i just watch?

Yes. This was quite bizarre.

There are but a few posters on IMDB, who I encounter frequently, but this time I was surprised by your assessment.

I've found it both very decently written and directed from start to finish. Then again it might be I'm too much under the influence of works brought to screen by Lars von Trier, Darren Aronofsky, and his late sensei, Satoshi Kon.

Anna had paranoid schizophrenia, and there was also a conspiracy, just not against her. I'm inviting anyone to rewatch it a few times, and play with the premise of analyzing scenes, in which there are more than two characters, and scenes, where Anna is alone, or just with somebody else.

I have interpreted actions not corroborated by others as her hallucinations, both auditory and visually. Nobody had heard the recorded telephone conversation between Hector and Balmore, he might have just killed himself. The second recording was listened to by the actor, however Anna's aunt isn't necessarily wrong, he had seen his diminished career, and once he listened to the record, he realized war is imminent, and returning to live on rations after suffering through the Great War and the financial crisis was just too much to bear. The same goes for Anna's fiancé, who did return from Paris, but if you look at the children at the party table, their body language conveys how Anna behaves strangely, as if there's nobody with her. Going to the vet was her idea, but her fiancé knowing about euthanasia, given the scope of how many had done it, isn't surprising. We never see him confirmed dead, besides a conspiracy built on accidental death couldn't explain away vanishing. She hallucinated seeing his body, it might have been a great Dane in real life. She was locked up for her own safety as she devolved to the point, where her paranoia took over. Balmore never visited her, neither did she see Walter alone, and her family happily playing, she went bonkers.

Still, there was of course, a conspiracy. Her father hasn't lied, they weren't Nazis, but cautious realists of the time. They had believed, that Britain, with the financial situation it was in, and the state of her colonies, could not withstand an armed conflict with Germany, and the Americans would never help. So they sought out support for neutrality without being seen as traitors, and in the middle of that, Anna's illness had surfaced, pursuing her fantasies/delusions. They couldn't afford to have someone air out their plan, but also couldn't afford her hurting herself or others. I suspect the "your parents are Gypsies" wasn't real, and they truly had genuine concern for her. When Ralph said water should be withheld, he spoke out of anger, not malice.

All in all, both Anna and Walter are unreliable narrators, and as such, much of it made sense.

I live in the Gordius Apartment Complex, my interior designer was M.C. Esher.

Hi Kaskai,
I agree with three of your points: "They wanted to prevent Churchill from coming into power and going to war with Germany." Anne's mother is the one who helped her escape, and Alexander deeply loved Anne.

However, they were not Nazi sympathizers. Alexander clearly states how he disapproves of Hitler. And despite Ralph's threat of withholding water, Alexander would never allow Anne to die. They kept her imprisoned to keep her from going public with what she knew.

btw; I wrote a short essay on Glorious 39 called "The Policy of Appeasement." If you would like to read it, here is the link: https://christopherjohnlindsay.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/glorious-39/