Well what can I say?
The Battle of Narvik, a battle that touched so many Norwegian families in the most horrific manner (including many from my own family who fought) depicted in a gross picture, where at times it even seems to draw a moral equivalency between the Nazi occupation and the Allied defence of the city.
The movie could have focused on so many angles depicting the heroic defence of the city, the strategic regrouping, the arrival of allied forces, yet instead, the Director decides to go solo, and focus on an absurd storyline that revolves around a traitorous Norwegian mother hopelessly collaborating with the Nazi invaders.
This storyline is not only an offence to the history of the battle, it is an offence to Narvik and to all of the soldiers and civilians who suffered immeasurably in the greatest battle of Norway during WW2.
And the ending is even more absurd. The husband, who throughout the film has been portrayed heroically, decides to abandon his troops to go AWOL (which clearly would not have been possible)?
Utterly shameful and disappointing.
The Battle of Narvik, a battle that touched so many Norwegian families in the most horrific manner (including many from my own family who fought) depicted in a gross picture, where at times it even seems to draw a moral equivalency between the Nazi occupation and the Allied defence of the city.
The movie could have focused on so many angles depicting the heroic defence of the city, the strategic regrouping, the arrival of allied forces, yet instead, the Director decides to go solo, and focus on an absurd storyline that revolves around a traitorous Norwegian mother hopelessly collaborating with the Nazi invaders.
This storyline is not only an offence to the history of the battle, it is an offence to Narvik and to all of the soldiers and civilians who suffered immeasurably in the greatest battle of Norway during WW2.
And the ending is even more absurd. The husband, who throughout the film has been portrayed heroically, decides to abandon his troops to go AWOL (which clearly would not have been possible)?
Utterly shameful and disappointing.