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. (more…)