![]() ![]() Or it makes what is ordinary in war-the nostalgic to the profound and deadly-believable, and not simply big and dramatic, which it also is. Maybe, in some honest sense, this is exactly how it would have been. I think the acting is superb, and so it's easy to go along with the conversations and interactions, but they aren't always compelling in themselves, more just creating some space before the next conflict arises. What is less impressive, at times, is the more ordinary character development that seems inevitable in a movie this long-2 ½ to 4 hours depending on the version you have, I saw the long one, the director's cut. It's a great movie, one of the best at capturing the feeling of being there. So a small group of men in a small underwater tin can try to survive the boredom as much as the British, who come very close to getting them several times. Nevertheless, there they are, and they have a job to do, and they're going to do it well. It isn't just that war is bad, but that the Nazis are bad. The captain goes so far as to openly make fun of the German propaganda coming in on their radio. But in movie after movie, the German film industry has confronted the real problem of being aggressors, and of being under the Nazi sway. American movies to this day still glorify and make heroic their roles in WWII (unlike the willingness, at times, to show the problems of Americans involved in Viet Nam, say), especially in the European side. ![]() But more impressive, I think, is how the movie works as a German movie about Germans in a war where the Germans were painted as evil. The action scenes, the sense of doom, the eerie quiet and then explosive depth charges, the grime and the crowded conditions, all of this is palpable. Das Boot (1981) Widely considered the most impressive submarine movie ever made, I'll go so far as to say it's easily the most accurate that I've seen. ![]()
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