Darkest Hour

This has become more of a hobby and less of a weekly/daily activity that drives my life. I still spend time in the cinema but I am no longer actively watching older movies that I may have missed along the way.

Darkest Hour is a film about Churchill and as I know nothing about Churchill because I studied WW2 I knew that I had to watch this film. Gary Oldman won the BAFTA and OSCAR for this movie and he thoroughly deserved it. The makeup department won a BAFTA and their work was so incredible that when you were watching the movie you couldn't tell from the face or voice who it was which made it so easy to just sit back and enjoy the movie. I didn't have to try and assess an actors performance because I knew in the back of my head who it was but it wasn't glaring at me.

The contents of this film picks on Churchill taking over, the evacuation of Dunkirk and eventually winning over the people with one of the greatest speeches in time. He was phenomenal and I learned so much from this movie. These types of movies are some of the best types of movies because I can get emotional and know that it actually happened. For some people watching this movie it's like they were reliving history. What they were watching on screen actually happened in their life time and it wasn't just a movie to them but they came out of the cinema screen talking about what a fantastic film it was, how accurate it was and how similar to Churchill Oldman's portrayal was.

Another massive shout out to Kristen Scott- Thomas as Mrs. Churchill. He was a difficult character and that made her life difficult as well but she knew that and she married him anyway. She struggled to live with the pressure that was on his shoulders and equally on hers but in this movie she was so strong and determined. Having seen I, Tonya I still feel that Scott- Thomas was better than Alison Janney. My disappointment is that she didn't win any awards for her performance in this movie because she truly did deserve them and even though there were a lot of good movies last year and there have already been a lot of good movies this year she has been the strongest supporting lady in a movie that I have seen (I haven't seen 'The Shape of Water').

Churchill is a phenomenal movie and if you haven't seen it then you should make sure that you do.