Darkest Hour Film Review

Hello, Blogger's Nation!

Since it's Movie award season here, I went to see the Golden Globe-nominated movie "Darkest Hour based on the darkest hours in May 1940 during world war II Wilston Churchill becomes Prime Minister as Neville Chamberlain resigns from his duties as Prime Minister and Leader. The movie follows Churchill when Great Britain was in the darkest hours of all time. 

We meet Churchill's ( Gary Oldman) new secretary Elizabeth Layton ( Lily James) she receives a note from Buckingham Palace that King Edward VIII wants to meet him as the new prime minister.  The first encounter between them both was very awkward but still rather humorous. Through the film we see the everyday updates on what was happening during the war, Churchill meeting foreign ally leaders to convince them to help the British allies to hold together but refuse thinking Churchill is "Utter Mad" When the British Expeditionary Force has been trapped in Dunkirk, Churchill finds out the Belgium surrender following the French. Churchill makes an urgent phone call to USA President Roosevelt to send over tanks but with a new law.

Churchill decides to ask the General Public if anybody who has a boat would leave Great Britain to evacuate the British and allies at Dunkirk receiving news of 800+ boats where willing to go and save the soldiers. 

Following this Churchill goes to the London Underground to head to Parliament asking the passengers what is their thoughts. (This is fiction, never actually happened when Churchill was around.) He gathers outer cabinet and explains what's is going on and which they all support Churchill.

Ms Layton helps Churchill in the back of the car typing his speech which he was going to address the Parliament, at the near end of his speech he says

WE SHALL FIGHT ON THE BEACHES if the Germans did invade the country. Churchill leaves the parliament in slow motion of all the sheets flying around the parliament which was a brilliant cinematic ending.

Found the film quite interesting seeing what Churchill was like before he became Prime Minister, his breakfast includes whiskey and glass of champagne. Throughout the film, he constantly drank a lot of alcohol throughout May. I did find some scene's humorous. As he in the toilet he had to say which received laughs throughout the cinema " Please tell the Privy Seal that I'm sealed in the privy and I can only deal with one shit at a time. " Though some scene's like the underground didn't actually happen the movie I still thought the movie was very good, I enjoyed Garry Oldman's portrayal of Churchill was very well done.

 I left the cinema feeling that time they fought as much as they could to get out of this horrible war and the UK left EU last year before in 1940's all the countries in Europe (minus Italy and Germany of course) fought together to have peace and stability.

You can see the film in the Gate Cork at Mahon Point at 9pm, Gate Cinema 1:40pm Cork City!

Thanks for reading and I see you all soon!

S x