Darkest Hour (2017) shows the first three weeks of Winston Churchill's mandate as Prime Minister of the UK. The movie portrays a difficult moment in that country's history, when the threat of foreign invasion was non negligible and the alternative of negotiating peace was tempting given the potentially devastating effects of the loss of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk.
Churchill is portrayed as moody, temperamental, and resolute, as he was in Churchill (2017), but the comparison of the character in the two movies is contrasting. In Darkest Hour, we see a determined political leader in the first days of the War gaining the confidence of the public, his party, and cementing his own, whereas in Churchill we see the same man worn out by four relentless years of war. In both occasions Churchill vehemently questioned the establishment, but while early in the war he proved right, later on he proved wrong. Both movies have a slow pace, perhaps conveying the inordinate amount of time involved in the delicate political maneuvers at the backstage of the war.
Churchill is portrayed as moody, temperamental, and resolute, as he was in Churchill (2017), but the comparison of the character in the two movies is contrasting. In Darkest Hour, we see a determined political leader in the first days of the War gaining the confidence of the public, his party, and cementing his own, whereas in Churchill we see the same man worn out by four relentless years of war. In both occasions Churchill vehemently questioned the establishment, but while early in the war he proved right, later on he proved wrong. Both movies have a slow pace, perhaps conveying the inordinate amount of time involved in the delicate political maneuvers at the backstage of the war.
Brian Cox and Gary Oldman each play a good Churchill, but it was Gary Oldman who got the nomination for best actor in a leading role for Darkest Hour.
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