LONDON ¨C The Oscars are handed out each year in early March. Ahead of this year¡¯s festivities, two movies about Britain in 1940 ¡ª ¡°Dunkirk¡± and ¡°Darkest Hour¡± ¡ª have collected plenty of nominations. They notably include Gary Oldman¡¯s imitation of Winston Churchill and the remarkable cinematography of ¡°Dunkirk.¡±
Yet, both movies are full of historical nonsense. For that reason, they should be catalogued with World War II propaganda movies. I am thinking of ¡°Objective Burma¡± (in which Errol Flynn single-handedly defeats the Japanese army). A British sample is ¡°In Which We Serve,¡± made in 1942, where Noel Coward plays the royal family¡¯s naval hero Lord Mountbatten, showing British grit at its best.
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