Das Boot (1981)
IMDB #66 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/]
The Gist:
Alright I don't feel like writing a bunch for this one except for to say a few things. One, this film is awesome. Two, this may be the first time I have watched something wanting Nazis to live. Three, the film is three and a half hours long and it manages to keep a thread of constant tension throughout the whole film! (save for exposition in the beginning and a really bizarre and kind of perfect second climax) Do you know how impressive that is? Very, it's insane just thinking about keeping someone in a state of anxiety for like three hours. I mean, damn. Four, this film has brought me to a conclusion that Hollywood is the source of all evil. I had been resisting the fact but this affirms it, that after this film got big the director came to work in Hollywood and put out the following films: Air Force One, Perfect Storm, Troy, Poseidon. Seriously, you go from making one of the best films ever made to making that trite horrid shit? What the fuck?
Just one thing. WWII Germans =/= automatically Nazi. In fact, the Kriegsmarine was the least Nazi of the German services and Hitler knew as much, once bitterly joking that he had a "Communist Navy, a monarchist Army, and a Nazi Air Force." The film shows as much - it's only the Mexican First Officer who's a committed militarist, and even so it's not clear if he's a member of the Nazi party. The Captain is openly anti-Nazi, as is the other captain, Thomsen.
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