Time: Tom Hanks' Greyhound Is a Quietly Thrilling War Drama That's Not Just for Dads
War movies nearly always automatically get filed under “Stuff Your Dad Likes,” whether your own personal dad has any feelings about them or not. But don’t let that stop you from seeing Greyhound, starring—and written by—Tom Hanks, as a World War II naval officer who’s just been given command of his first Fletcher-class destroyer. Don’t know what a Fletcher-class destroyer is? Don’t worry—Greyhound, out now on Apple TV+, is perfectly enjoyable even if you don’t catch every nuance of the lingo. A war adventure set on the bleak, pearl-gray seas of the Atlantic, it’s tense and quietly thrilling, though it’s brushed with somber elegance, too. There’s an abstract, poetic quality to Greyhound; it’s less about rah-rah heroics than it is about the secret burden of heroism—because with wartime heroism, there’s always a price to pay.
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WNU Editor: Watched the movie last night. It is only 80 minutes long, but it's intensity and story grabs you in the first 10 minutes. If you have the chance to see this movie, you will not be disappointed.
4 comments:
I'll see the movie, when it is discounted.
Too many damn Hollywood types have shown their true colors.
Hollywood runs to Joseph Campbell to make money and then spends the rest of their time tearing down the country while they swill expensive booze in the posh digs.
After Vietnam, hollywood replaced sleeping pills. I was no longer content to watch actors act no matter how realistically.
Before VN, we kids used to "produce" war movies. We'd go to the local surplus store (remember those ?) get decked out and go make a movie. After VN....we never made another.
Propaganda is propaganda. Glorification of war has grown tiresome. Can we not recognize it's all the same entity top to bottom.
So escorting ships during the Battle of the Atlantic is no harder, no more dangerous, or no more laudable than going to work at the office?
Maybe war wasn't necessary. Maybe, if Chamberlain had told The Corporal he had to ask "Mother May I?", that would have prevented WW2?
The Corporal could then have asked "Mother May I?" to Polish Prime Minister Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, PM Chamberlain, or French PM Édouard Daladier. If one or more of them had said "No", then that would have been it. No war.
Best of all possible Worlds
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