"Brown on resolution" aka "Forever England" begins with the courtship of the hero's parents - and believe me, it is difficult to sit through these scenes, they are as unpleasantly sweet as cough sirop. These scenes are followed by a number of episodes about the hero's childhood and adolescence ; they tell the viewer something about the educational system involved, but aren't all that interesting from a dramatic or narrative viewpoint. Still, I advise you to suffer in silence, since the movie gets better as it goes along.
The movie works towards a tremendously exciting climax, with a lone sniper trying to delay the repairs on a damaged war ship. The people on the war ship are not amused and the result is a riveting cat-and-mouse game on a dangerous island (well, on a dangerous heap of rocks).
Strangely enough - and I'm pretty sure the makers of the movie did not intend it to be so - the movie can be read as a excellent argument PRO the killing of war prisoners. Consider the following facts : a war ship belonging to nation A is sunk by a war ship belonging to nation B. A young sailor escapes from the sinking ship and is saved by the warship belonging to nation B. His hosts treat him well, with good food, good company and good medical care. The young man escapes from the ship, armed with a rifle, and proceeds to shoot the hell out of his hosts. So why should any nation be foolish enough to take prisoners, or to treat these prisoners kindly ?
For clarity's sake, I'm not arguing in favour of routine killing of war prisoners ; I'm just remarking that the movie might very well be construed as such an argument. So there's that to consider in evaluating "Brown on resolution".
The movie works towards a tremendously exciting climax, with a lone sniper trying to delay the repairs on a damaged war ship. The people on the war ship are not amused and the result is a riveting cat-and-mouse game on a dangerous island (well, on a dangerous heap of rocks).
Strangely enough - and I'm pretty sure the makers of the movie did not intend it to be so - the movie can be read as a excellent argument PRO the killing of war prisoners. Consider the following facts : a war ship belonging to nation A is sunk by a war ship belonging to nation B. A young sailor escapes from the sinking ship and is saved by the warship belonging to nation B. His hosts treat him well, with good food, good company and good medical care. The young man escapes from the ship, armed with a rifle, and proceeds to shoot the hell out of his hosts. So why should any nation be foolish enough to take prisoners, or to treat these prisoners kindly ?
For clarity's sake, I'm not arguing in favour of routine killing of war prisoners ; I'm just remarking that the movie might very well be construed as such an argument. So there's that to consider in evaluating "Brown on resolution".