DARKEST HOUR! They really selected what they wanted to remember about Churchill. The anti-nazi message was second to the primary message of fight on and don’t give up. The entire analysis was basically if we fight on and strategize well we can WIN!!! They mostly ignore Soviet military wins in the Eastern Front (its been a while so maybe they mention it a few times but I doubt it) They also depict everything as utterly fucked until One Great Man stepped forward and strengthened the nation to endure the Nazi bombs. Also they try making him tough but charming on the inside. Which, if you know anything about his personal life, is tough to believe and really whitewashes him and simplifies his flaws. Good acting no doubt, I thought it was a well-made movie but very liberal
This could have been a great film. But your critique is spot on. It was bearable for the most part, notwithstanding the broader ahistorical flaws. But the whitewashing of Churchill, showing him to be friendly to a black man was more than I could take.
The guy spent his life committing heinous racist and reactionary crimes. His was anti-Semitic and he spoke of black people as inferior, by which he included more or less anyone south of Calais and east of the alps. He purposely decided to starve/abandon to the enemy three million people in India. Prior to all this, he was known for calling the army on striking workers and shooting them in the street. He was no anti-fascist, I’ll put it that way.
DARKEST HOUR! They really selected what they wanted to remember about Churchill. The anti-nazi message was second to the primary message of fight on and don’t give up. The entire analysis was basically if we fight on and strategize well we can WIN!!! They mostly ignore Soviet military wins in the Eastern Front (its been a while so maybe they mention it a few times but I doubt it) They also depict everything as utterly fucked until One Great Man stepped forward and strengthened the nation to endure the Nazi bombs. Also they try making him tough but charming on the inside. Which, if you know anything about his personal life, is tough to believe and really whitewashes him and simplifies his flaws. Good acting no doubt, I thought it was a well-made movie but very liberal
This could have been a great film. But your critique is spot on. It was bearable for the most part, notwithstanding the broader ahistorical flaws. But the whitewashing of Churchill, showing him to be friendly to a black man was more than I could take.
The guy spent his life committing heinous racist and reactionary crimes. His was anti-Semitic and he spoke of black people as inferior, by which he included more or less anyone south of Calais and east of the alps. He purposely decided to starve/abandon to the enemy three million people in India. Prior to all this, he was known for calling the army on striking workers and shooting them in the street. He was no anti-fascist, I’ll put it that way.