How I Won the War [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2&4 Import - Australia]
by Richard Lester
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Actor: Jack MacGowran, John Lennon, Lee Montague, Michael Crawford, Roy KinnearDirector: Richard Lester
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Producer: Richard Lester
Editor: John Victor-Smith
Producer: Denis O'Dell
Writer: Charles Wood
Writer: Patrick Ryan
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: MGM
Movie Reviews of How I Won the War [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2&4 Import - Australia]
Movie Review: A corrosive antimilitarist satire
Summary: 5 Stars
" Absurd " humour against the absurd of war. Director Richard Lester dismounts the british establisment, the cynical lies and fabricated interests hidden under the smoke curtain of the patrotism, the military discipline, the stereotypes of epics and the delirious glorification and manipulative vision that some films do of war with his juvenile and iconoclast spirit and sardonic comicity. Lester uses techniques of strangeness to accentuate the grotesque side of war and the sentiment of alienation in which seems to move all the time the characters: the movie is conceived as a long chain of satirical vignettes or synthetic thought-provokative gags whithin a flashback narration conducted by the leutenant Goodbody ( a splendid Michael Crawford ), responsible of one of the worst units of the army. Likewise, the frenetic dialogues ( in the army the members of the high command speak loud and fast to their subordinates and don't wait that soldiers think, this is, Lester makes a caricature of the militaries' rules and their tics ) are recordered in a very deliberated artificial way provoking the effect as if we were listening the thoughts of the characters or their words didn't belong to them ( this very interesting narrative resort we can already find with a similar intention in the Fleischer brothers' " talkartoons " ). John Lennon leaves this time the rest of the Beatles to join to the disastrous unit leaded by Michael Crawford, in the role of a completely incompetent leutenant, in this tragic-comic antiwarlike movie.
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