as a historical film made by the BBC, [39 Years of Glory] has maintained the production level of [The Legend of Elizabeth I] and [Pride and Prejudice]. The country villas or antique mansions change one by one, and the actors are gentlemen and ladies in their gestures, which are well-mannered and pleasing to the eye. But what is even more rare in the film is that the script is quite well-crafted. On the surface, it is suspenseful, but on the inside, it is discussing how far the helpless view of good and evil in war, the distortion and stubbornness of human beings will go.
From the level of suspense, the film tells the story of a girl being "driven crazy" by her family. A young girl, Annie, was adopted by a high-ranking family since she was a child. She has everything in beauty, future, and love. She is proud of her spring breeze. However, she accidentally broke into her father's "forbidden place" to get a turntable of secret meeting recordings, and entered an endless nightmare. From a bystander's point of view, what happened to Annie could obviously be summed up as "one wrong step, one wrong step", if she hadn't found the lost cat in the forbidden area, if she hadn't linked the councillor's death to the minutes of the meeting, if she hadn't There is no attempt to find someone to spread the so-called "truth"... The fat man in black who always passes by on a bicycle, the strange behavior of relatives' children, the family's caring but seemingly ulterior motives, the film renders the ubiquitous sense of persecution around Annie. It's very good. Relatively speaking, the settings of the mystery reveal and the plot reversal are flat. It's as if the director is trying to tell us that the truth doesn't matter anymore as we watch Annie's all-powerful, wall-to-wall concept against a huge family. What Anne fought against was actually an era.
Britain in 1939, the shadow of World War II shrouded, and the delicate relationship with Germany determined the future of this country. Just in the summer when Anne was "crazy", Anne's father, a national aristocrat and a high-ranking government official, needed to make this decision-in the context of this clear story, every character in the film has a distinct symbol, and also All are endowed with their own tragedies. It’s not wrong for Anne’s father to support and appease the Nazis. He just wants the UK not to become cannon fodder, but it doesn’t mean she agrees with Nazi ideology. It’s not wrong for Anne to stubbornly pursue the “truth”. The justice in her heart is obviously to be exchanged for sacrifice. Yes; there is nothing wrong with Annie's mother who is arranging flowers every time she appears, she chooses to protect herself regardless of herself, it is just a way of survival in a disaster. In fact, the film also expands Anne's psychological situation to the whole society, giving a very detailed description of the social state of the whole UK before the war, the unattended children on the mountain trails, the shocking pet corpses in the pet hospital storage room, just a few strokes. , very restrained, the anxiety before the storm and the situation of the tide hitting the empty city are very vivid. It can be said that the purpose of the film is not suspense, but just borrowed the body of a little woman. After all, like the title of the film, it will fall into the glory and oblivion of 1939. The sacrifice of Annie's father to Annie is just the tip of the iceberg chosen by the times.
The most vivid stroke of the film appears at the end. When Annie was released from the cell, her mother was still arranging flowers outside the door. The sentence "Let's go" made people suddenly realize that she actually knew everything; She deceived her family, but they summoned her back with their expectant eyes, unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy at the moment, the back of Annie's resolute departure seemed to have broken with her own destiny.
Originally published in "Watching the Movie"
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