Operation Grinder
Director: John Madden
Writers: Michelle Ashford/Ben Macintyre
Starring: Colin Firth / Matthew McFadden / Johnny Flynn / Jensen Isaac / Kelly McDonald
One sentence evaluation: This story sounds like a fantasy, and if the movie is too focused on the process of telling the events, it will really look like a comedy.
When there is still love in the darkness
——Comment on "Operation Grinding"
Movie sieves
It is often said that "reality is more wonderful than movies", and indeed, some of the events that occur in reality are too bizarre to be considered "too exaggerated" by the audience if they are adapted into movies. This film almost became such an example.
The film is about a successful British military deceiving operation against Germany during World War II. British intelligence disguised a homeless man who had died by eating rat poison as a drowned British officer, and the body found on the Spanish coastline carried classified documents, and Britain hoped that the Germans would believe the contents of this information - the British army would attack Greece instead of Sicily in Italy, thus buying favorable conditions for the Allied attack on Sicily.
Just a corpse to make the Germans change the battle plan sounds like a fantasy, and if the movie is too focused on the course of events, it will really be like a comedy. Fortunately, the creators focused on several intelligence officers involved in this operation, so that we can understand their personal emotions and lives, so this strange story has become solid and real under the interpretation of several acting masters. In addition, these emotional details have an unexpected effect, that is, let us see that under the haze of Nazi Germany's imminent engulfment of Europe, these brave people who have thrown themselves into the fight still have love in their hearts - love for themselves, love for their families, love for colleagues, love for strangers... This also makes us understand that the purpose of their joining the battle is to protect the people and things they love.
Under the shroud of darkness and fear, it often makes people feel that it is useless to do anything, and the efforts of small people will not make waves. And this seemingly special World War II theme film shows a few small people in the most uncertain moment of the war prospects, carefully weaving an unbelievable lie, the result of this lie affected the entire World War II situation. Perhaps history is really not just a story of the past, but also an encouragement for future generations.