All This in the Royal Navy

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Comments

[poliphilo]

I saw this for the first time quite recently- and fell in love. It's one of the great British movies, I think. I love the bit where Coward and Johnson picnic on the Downs with the Battle of Britain going on above them.

[setsuled]

I really enjoyed it. I was struck by how good-natured it is for a propaganda film. Compared to U.S. cartoons with racist caricatures or Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin where soldiers are shown slaughtering civilians. In Which We Serve doesn't seem to have anything particularly bad to say about the Germans, the focus seems to be entirely on the worthiness of defending Britain than the wickedness of the enemy.