theRetiree

Another in a long line of movies about Resistance groups, and yes even Nazis have wives and children who love them, but the question posed by the young student has an easy answer: go talk to somebody who experienced the holocaust from the inside. Sadly the folks who need to see this movie, and ask themselves these questions, won't. The French, Norwegians, Danes, and Low Country citizens were entirely justified in their judgements and actions-and yes, so were the Russians. The real issue confronting the students, and the viewers of this movie, is: what side are you on, and what are you going to do if confronted by the kind of crisis that overwhelmed poor Norway? There's plenty of evidence that there were indeed many captive occupied people, and many "good Germans," who chose to keep their heads down. Fortunately, there are always a few of extraordinary courage and moral certainty. We just have to hope they're around when you need them.

For a moment i thought I was back in "A Royal Night Out" but upside down with Bel Pawley as the Serious Sister and no surly AWOL airman. And no Chelsea Barracks or Royal Fanboy "Knocking Shop" proprietor. I always suspected that A Royal Night Out was indeed a historical documentary, and now we seem to have a second independent source attesting to the general outlines of the story. If it wasn't really true it clearly should have been, and the two Princesses (or as Bel said: P-1 and P-2) are even wearing the same costumes of pink dress and olive drab uniform. I loved ARNO, and found this little vignette equally lovely and even moving.

But now I wonder: is any of it real?