Submitted by David R on 23 September 2008 - 10:04am.
I feel this is Humphrey Jennings' masterpiece. This is a view of the world through the eyes of a new-born baby with the war as a constant prescence. His vunerability and innocence is contrasted with the war-weariness and questions over the future, with the hope that the mistakes of the inter-war years will not be repeated. It is both haunting and poiginant with the added highsight of the last sixty-plus years. You are left wondering, esspecially after the greed and arrogance of the last twenty years and the financial meltdown of September 2008, have we let Timothy and his generation down?
A Diary for Timothy
I feel this is Humphrey Jennings' masterpiece. This is a view of the world through the eyes of a new-born baby with the war as a constant prescence. His vunerability and innocence is contrasted with the war-weariness and questions over the future, with the hope that the mistakes of the inter-war years will not be repeated. It is both haunting and poiginant with the added highsight of the last sixty-plus years. You are left wondering, esspecially after the greed and arrogance of the last twenty years and the financial meltdown of September 2008, have we let Timothy and his generation down?