The Awards Season brings all the best films in quick succession, so our second in two days is Joe Wright’s DARKEST HOUR starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and Lily James as Elizabeth Layton, his young secretary. Britain has spent 2017 obsessed with World War II movies and it looks as if 2018 is a continuation.
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There’s some clunky expository dialogue. Winston and Clemmie exchange facts about their early life which they both would hardly have needed reminding of, and Atlee says something like “We in the opposition Labour Party …” And did people “ride” the Underground in 1940? When Johnny Cash’s LP Ride This Train came out in about 1960, that collocation was new to me.
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Another thing. I was in a hurry to see the film this evening since it’s only showing in a few cinemas here in Korea, and only scheduled to run for a couple of days in most of them. I thought it was a shame that Koreans are going to miss a chance to discover the origin of their universal and almost obligatory photo pose.
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