Valkyrie
Yesterday, in the absence of ideas of anything better to do, Tim and I went to the cinema again, this time to see the film Valkyrie. We have admittedly been to the cinema rather a lot recently, but it’s not expensive if you go before 6pm, and there’s not a lot else to do when it’s cold and dark outside. I did suggest we went bowling, but that’s a lot more expensive and Babel was scared he was going to lose 
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from the film, as I hadn’t actually heard anyone say it was any good. I heard a lot about it while they were filming it, mainly because of the controversy which was caused in Germany. There’s some sort of German law which says that Scientology is a dangerous cult, and because of that many people were very unhappy about the inclusion of Tom Cruise in the cast. There were refusals to let the crew film at certain locations within Berlin, and the family of Von Stauffenberg were said to be suspicious about the idea of a film in general. Since it’s been released, however, I’d scarcely heard anyone mention it on the tv, which perhaps isn’t a terribly good omen.
Nevertheless, I think it was rather good. Nowhere near as good as The Reader, although admittedly it was also sad at the end, but it didn’t bore me and even Babel didn’t (hardly) fall asleep. There was more talking than action, and admittedly I didn’t perfectly follow all the twists of the plotting, but it was a very tense film and the suspense was built up well. It’s waaaay too complicated to summarise it all here though, so if you want to know what happens you’ll have to go see it yourself 
I have to say I knew very little about the July 20th bomb plot to kill Hitler. We did study German resistance when I was doing my AS Levels, but for some reason we seemed to spend a lot more time on the White Rose movement. There were some things in the film which really surprised me, so now I’m off to have a google and see how much of it was true!
Other than that, not much news to report. Babel had to restrain himself from murdering me in public after he learnt of an embarrassing mistake I made when purchasing dvds, but despite that it was nice to see him. Even if he keeps saying he’s bought me an ironing board for Valentine’s Day 