Did anyone see Downfall?
More4 is useful for showing films before the crits have quite faded from memory - very useful if the nearest cinema is 50 miles away.
I remember Hitler's voice. Pa used to surf the crackly airwaves in the hot summer of 1939 and let me here the result. Ma scolded him, esp for subjecting the child to that ranting and raving.
Fascinating film. But my mind get throwing up some quibbles some of them quite beside the point.
'Hitler's' accent annoyed me. I know he came from Linz, and I've worked there and he didn't sound like the accent in my memory.
How did they produce all the rubble? From the end credits, I presume that a lot of the exteriors were St Petersburg which was still standing the last I heard of it.
How were the people in the bunker supposed to get all their supplies? Lashing of booze, endless packets of cigarettes, and enough food to be going on with.
Did a cyanide capsule really work so efficiently as all that? And did anyone ever find the children's bodies.
If he had lost it so obviously towards the end, why did some of the remaining generals not take charge and least limit the carnage?
How did the Reich ever can to power at all? Fanatics are not usually so efficent. It's always struck me as ludicrous that the great white aryan ideal was miles away from his gang and from Hitler himself.
The idea of loyalty to a sworn oath isn't one that comes naturally to me, or possibly to anyone else these days. It sounded like the old dramas we did at university (European, not Shakespeare, he didn't go on at length about honour)
The secretary really did survive and they had her on the TV quite a few years ago, and I know she's written her account of the last years. So how much of the film was accurate (I'm not sking if it was true, which is a very different question)
It was a fascinating evening