Review of Downfall (2004) by Simon R — 30 Apr 2015

Spoiler Alert:

This is a film where the true realities of war are shown and not one where it is all sugar coated like a Call of Duty game. The acting is literally brilliant and is a very good interpretation of the people in Berlin when the Red Army storm the city in 1945 after Germany plunged the earth into another world war.

It was a very powerful movie for multiple reasons, in my opinion the most powerful part of the movie is where Himmler's wife gave their children a drink with some sleeping drugs crushed in (and is very upsetting when one of the kids realises what is going on and tries with all her might not to drink but is shoved down her throat by a doctor and the mum). When the kids where asleep, the mum placed a cyanide tablet in each of their mouths and one by one the mum closed their jaws to crush the tablet and killed them. The thing about that is that once tablet was bitten into, you could hear the kids try to breathe and shaking about for a second before they exhale their final breath.

Overall, a very realistic and powerful film I would highly recommend to anyone who is interested in history or WW2.