4/10
Listen to Britain again
27 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"A Diary for Timothy" is a short film from 1945 and the director is Humphrey Jennings, the man who made the Oscar-nominated "Listen to Britain" a few years earlier. The contents here are very different with the exception that history had progressed considerably in these 3 years. The Allies had won the war and this film tells audiences again about what life in Britain looked like around that time. It also tells about the upcoming challenges for post-war Britain and the world. For the framework here, Jennings used a little baby and explains this film by depicting the world he was born into as he did not exist yet in 1942 when he made his more known movie. This film here includes some very known British artists such as actors Michael Redgrave, John Gielgud and writer E.M. Forster. I still must say it was not really in interesting watch. I'd only recommend this to British people with a great interest in history, or even historians themselves. Thumbs down from me.
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