![]() ![]() “Had the Atlantic been lost, so too would have Britain,” writes historian James Holland for History Extra. The Soviet Union, besieged by the Nazis’ Operation Barbarossa, was also in dire need of food, oil and other essential supplies, which arrived via seaports on the Arctic Ocean. As Blazich explains, the conflict was centered chiefly on supplies: An island nation, the United Kingdom required a steady flow of imported goods and raw materials, many of which originated in the U.S. Greyhound takes place at a critical moment in the Battle of the Atlantic, which began in September 1939 and only ended with the Germans’ surrender on May 8, 1945. Sony Pictures What events does Greyhound dramatize? ![]() Hanks portrays a newly promoted captain tasked with leading a convoy across the Atlantic. “What you did yesterday got us to today,” a crew member tells Krause in the trailer. In true cinematic fashion, the captain ultimately battles not only a military enemy, but his own personal demons and self-doubt. Keeling, a destroyer under Krause’s command-features Hanks as a newly promoted officer tasked with leading his first transatlantic convoy through a swath of water known as the “ Black Pit.” Per the movie’s official description, Krause must protect his fleet from Nazi U-boats over a five-day period without air cover. Set in the winter of 1942, Greyhound-a nod to the nickname of the U.S.S. Though fictional, the Forester book is deeply researched and noted for its accurate depiction of naval warfare. Forester’s 1955 novel, The Good Shepherd (not to be confused with the 2006 film The Good Shepherd about the founding of the CIA). Hanks, who stars as United States Navy Commander Ernest Krause, adapted the screenplay from C.S. As the film’s trailer states, Greyhound is “inspired by,” rather than directly based on, actual events. Because Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are enormously likable in their roles, they win our sympathy and make us realize that too many movies about younger teenagers are filtered through the sensibility of more weathered minds.In short, no. It's a self-confident work for the first-time director, Richard Ayoade, whose purpose I think is to capture that delicate moment in some adolescent lives when idealism and trust lead to tentative experiments. It flaunts some stylistic devices, such as titles and sections and self-aware narration, but it doesn't try too hard to be desperately clever. "Submarine" isn't an insipid teen sex comedy. Simultaneously, Oliver very much wants to start having sex - with Jordana Bevan, who for now occupies all the space available in his mind for possible partners. He reports to us that his parents have stopped having sex and explains the ingenious method he used to figure this out. It is Oliver's concern that his mother may be growing too involved with Graham Purvis. Right now, she is entranced by a self-styled mystic named Graham Purvis ( Paddy Considine), who has the gift of holding an audience spellbound with utter nonsense he seems to make up as he goes along. His mother ( Sally Hawkins) is, like many Sally Hawkins characters, earnestly engaged in whatever occupies her. His father ( Noah Taylor) is an oddly quiet man, withdrawn, not quite there in the room. Their relationship begins with earnest exchanges of searching looks in the school corridor, and soon progresses to having dinner at Oliver's house when his parents aren't home. ![]() She isn't a tart, nor is she any more experienced than Oliver, but she's more confident. For example, she knows some of them need leadership or they will stew forever in self-doubt. Jordana understands this, and a great many other things about adolescent boys. ![]()
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