85. Lancaster Skies; movie review
Cert PG
98 mins
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Therefore, it is welcome that Lancaster Skies is less about bombers swooping over Berlin and the crew returning as heroes and more about how its squadron copes with loss.
Callum Burn's film may be low budget but it should be praised for avoiding the cheap rah-rah-rah of wartime victory.
Instead, it alights upon Douglas Miller (Jeffrey Mundell), a flight lieutenant, who is seen as a stiff shirt by his new team but is actually fighting personal demons.
Miller's way of handling grief is to shut down from others but also he makes the mistake of thinking his team frivolous for going out and getting drunk between sorties.
He doesn't realise that they too are trying to blank out bereavement and the fear of the next flight which may cost them their lives.
Meanwhile, Kris Saddler is the rear gunner who has been traumatised by the death of the previous squadron leader but knows he will have to go and fight more aerial battles.
I was left to ponder on how today's society would have coped with such pressures.
During the Second World War, no allowance was given to post-traumatic stress. There simply were not enough airmen to give them time off to try to get their heads together.
Thus, operations and lives could be in the hands of someone who was suffering from extreme mental distress.
Somehow they just had to get on with it. That makes their bravery even more remarkable.
Burn didn't have money to throw around on Lancaster Skies but he has, nevertheless, created a movie which makes its audience think.
Reasons to avoid: Takes too long to get into its stride
Laughs: None
Jumps: None
Vomit: Yes
Nudity: None
Overall rating: 6/10
Did you know? During the war, Lancasters flew over 156,000 raids, dropping around 50 million incendiary bombs and 608,000 tons of explosive devices. During a 1942 raid on Cologne, 1,000 bombers destroyed over 600 acres of industrial land.
The final word. Callum Burn: "When writing the screenplay we looked at some of the great British war films, such as ‘The Dam Busters’, ‘The Cruel Sea’ and ‘Battle of Britain’. These films informed a generation of the hardships faced by the wartime generation but they did it with a lightness of touch and an innocence that is often missing in contemporary war films. We wanted to make a film that a family could watch together. What better way to keep the story of the wartime aircrews alive for decades to come?"
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