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by - kell_smurthwaite on Wed Oct 5 2011 15:55:23
It's called having an imagination. "What if" is always a great start for a novel/movie - looking at how things might be if just one event in history has a different outcome.
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That's how exactly it was with me in this movie, an imaginative "what if".
Haven't read the novel.
The moment the opening scene displayed the text ... "After the failure of D-Day, Britain has been invaded by Germany", I immediately knew this is an imaginary premise, and I got curious what it was going to be all about. I've read some about WWII and knew that wasn't the case, but I'm not interested in the details of how that imaginary premise is plausible or implausible.
The early scenes making it known this movie isn't going to be about wartime governance, politics and strategies and was more about how both the people in this remote Welsh village and the small group of enemies conducted themselves in these circumstances was what interested me the most, and had me riveted through to the end.
How those left behind in the village - old ones, the wives, those still young to join the armed resistance - will now have to cope without the farmer-husbands, especially when the small troop of German war-weary soldiers with their captain came. The particular, individual ways the villagers attempted to resist these enemies, and how survival played a part in their decisions - for both villagers and invaders was what kept me glued to my seat.
I don't know anyone of the actors except for Michael Sheen, having seen him in a few movies, and that contributed much to what I think are impressive performances, restrained drama all-around, which to me added more tension to the critical situation. Even the boy who cried for punishing the collaborator by shooting her horse, expressed his emotions just right.
Truth inexorably,inscrutably seeks and reveals Itself into the Light.
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