emotionally confused

Rating: 2/10 (20 January 2019)

It starts as a comedy, at least light-hearted, and it goes on that way for about 20 minutes. Then it descends into the gut-wrenching horror of a Nazi occupation, coming out into comedy a little later, descending into "truth" and horror and re-surfacing again. You can have mixed emotion in a novel, as it takes time to read. A film needs one emotional note, or at least not major ups and downs as this one has. As an example of a poorly structured film it's one for students to examine: Don't Do It Like This. The film stays - presumably - close to the book. It should have thrown away huge plot-chunks and made them filmic. Anything else has the smell of exploitation, and using people's (film) lives as plot-points. The verdict was in the box office. Â£18m sales. A happier. and still defiant film should've made much more than this.