Darkest Hour 2017 by
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Warning:
there is flashing effects/colourful effects/war sequences/medical/references to
swastika and cancer
In Our Darkest Hour step forward a
man to pin our hopes on:
briefly; step forward the unpopular Winston Churchill [Gary Oldman:] he is a
newly appointed Prime Minister after Neville Chamberlain [Ronald Pickup:] he in
a nutshell was a weak Prime Minister dealing with the oncoming threat of Nazi
Germany at the time, so this is the story of politics Winston, and his wife
Clementine Churchill [Kristin Scott Thomas:] his wife that supported him and
she was a strong lady in her own right, Winston and King George VI [Ben Mendelsohn:] the reigning
monarch at the time that didn't think highly of Winston to begin with and
finally Elizabeth Layton [Lily James:] at this point in history she was the new
incoming secretary to Winston.
Generally speaking: the storyline/script is excellent, we get a little bit
of exposition on screen with words and throughout now and again we get date
changes, so the pacing for this 125 minutes film is good.
Character
developments, comedy and art; let's begin this content on a lighter note that
now and again it shows that Winston accidentally had a comical side, be it
getting out of bed and possibly showing too much [for those younger generations
out there that are deeply offended by such things or such small things by
today's standards of 2026 and beyond; this was back in 1940 where they had real
things to worry about so this kind of behaviour was far from sexually intended,
it was more like; we have to deal with war, we got time for small details,] or
Winston getting his infamous hand gesture wrong.
The
art is nothing but perfection; be it the set designs, the wardrobe and
accessories, Oldman going from Oldman to Winston they did a fantastic job with
that entire transformation, they really went with the authenticity of approach
to bring this piece of history to life with attention to detail and respect to
the subject matter.
Character
developments and performances; the character developments are the rich and
in-depth regardless of the size of the role, but now including Stephen Dillane as
Viscount Halifax: he is a part of Winston's war cabinet and in short thinks we
should handle this situation differently; this film is a entire cast
performance, but you see now there is a reason why I have made reference to all
of these characters and their performance; they are very much linchpin roles to
support Oldman/Winston in one way or another be it friction, love of a good
woman/wife regardless of how they get there will always love one another; which
I have to say this is a brilliant performance from Scott Thomas: as yes indeed
she shows there is a loving side to him, but also she has to be quite strong to
put up with Winston, obviously you have the King not being true King in on him
and then you have the youth perspective of Layton/James and Oldman/Winston is just phenomenal he
absolutely embodies Winston Churchill as unfortunately he knew what needed to
be done, even in this film it shows him sitting down and talking to the British
public face-to-face for a little while or as long as this train journey takes
to get to a stop, without using any dangerous rhetoric and safely without
twisting things, but without being depressing even know the cost will be high
what they want to do; Oldman puts in a once-in-a-lifetime performance as
Winston Churchill.
This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; simply put
it needs to be seen once in a lifetime, to be brutally honest it makes you feel
ashamed to be British really as these people were facing certain death in most
cases, for our benefit, but when it is our turn to face our version of anything
like a war [I'm not doing a comparison, I am just saying of our version of
wars:] we fail not once but twice the future generations of our country which
frankly made me cry a little bit and incredibly angry; if you have no idea of
the two locations I am referring to Brexit has ensured that depending on your
bloodline or ethnic background is going to determine what kind of life you are
going to have, not forgetting we have put a chain around her neck of future
inheritance that didn't have a choice in the matter and the second one is;
Covid-19 where instead of standing altogether and doing our part, we decided to
spread misinformation and hatred online towards those that were vulnerable
including but not limited to politicians breaking their own rules and lining
their own pockets, whilst families can say goodbye to their loved ones, I have
always stated I never lost anyone in this time period but I had a cancer
situation and other political situations happening meanwhile you had people
catching some sunrays on a beach, now in present times we have this new world
of; women essentially selling themselves on adult platforms having the audacity
to call themselves entrepreneurs instead of what they are which is prostitutes,
not forgetting underage girls going around with very little on, wanting the
engagement, but once they get being ignorant they have the audacity to call you
a sex offender some degree, women of any age basically selling themselves to the
highest bidder for the best planned date where they don't have to pay, they may
like one man but behind liking that one man they may be sleeping with another
two individuals at minimum, meanwhile man are being castrated left, right and
centre, because we have learnt as soon as we step out of line these women can
make allegations of inappropriate behaviour of anything and it sticks, so we
end up doing nothing, meanwhile we also have the pronoun war that if we forget
or don't say the right pronoun at the right time we are labelled transphobic
even though there are only two genders and one sub gender; man, woman and
person that is it; it is highly inappropriate for someone like myself to talk
to a minor about sex, yet seemingly it is perfectly fine for parents to give
their undeveloped children on all counts it mentally, physically, emotionally
or any level the option to be whatever gender they want to be which in essence
in my opinion is just child abuse, based on the grounds they don't have the
skills to deal with that decision. But meanwhile you have somebody like myself
that I can person to every other section of our society is being left in the
dark ages, but I don't have a choice I was born damaged and I get constantly
reminded every day of where I am in the social taking order of things; so the
more story of this content in this section is; thank god Nazi Germany of
yesteryear didn't try and invade England today, because we would all be
screwed. This film also has some awards accredited to its name such as 54
Winners include but not limited to Academy Awards, USA 2018 Oscars Best
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling Kazu Hiro David Malinowski Lucy Sibbick
and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Gary Oldman. 81 Nominees
would also include but not limited to from the same award ceremony/event Best
Motion Picture of the Year Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Lisa Bruce Anthony McCarten
Douglas Urbanski, Best Achievement in Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel, Best
Achievement in Costume Design Jacqueline Durran and Best Achievement in
Production Design Sarah Greenwood Katie Spencer
