I watched the film today . I had no great hopes for it as I had never heard of it.
The Times said So so. On reading the other reports I watched it and was pleasantly surprised how good it was.
It was one of the cleverest war films I have seen because it discussed how the prisoners of war were asked questions.
The German interrogator said "They don't know they know" he followed this up with "There is no such thing as an innocent question and no such thing as a valueless statement"
The point was he was able to piece together from various comments that the prisoners made what was going on and what the next raid might be about. This was even though the prisoners did not know the details of the raids themselves.
A clever idea and well executed.
Also for a US film they did not show the British and French characters as clichés.
Worth watching a few times.
The Times said So so. On reading the other reports I watched it and was pleasantly surprised how good it was.
It was one of the cleverest war films I have seen because it discussed how the prisoners of war were asked questions.
The German interrogator said "They don't know they know" he followed this up with "There is no such thing as an innocent question and no such thing as a valueless statement"
The point was he was able to piece together from various comments that the prisoners made what was going on and what the next raid might be about. This was even though the prisoners did not know the details of the raids themselves.
A clever idea and well executed.
Also for a US film they did not show the British and French characters as clichés.
Worth watching a few times.