Valkyrie

Semalem nonton Valkyrie di XXI Senayan City. Sebenernya rada males siy nontonnya, secara gue rada anti-Tom Cruise. Tapi demi menjaga kelancaran persahabatan, halah, jadilah gue nurut aja waktu Kunti bilang suaminya pengen nonton film itu.

Based on true story, I've read about it back when I was a child. See, my dad had a set of encyclopedia. And that was my source of enjoyment, *what the fuck??*, if I ran out of money to buy new comics and novels. And I was an action novels' buff back then. I read Alistair MacLean, Jack Higgins, Frederick Forsythe, John LeCarre, etc. So, watching Valkyrie was like watching an alinea in Nazi history in pictures. It's all familiar to me. But when Kunti kept voicing her questions, or to be more exact, her expectation, on what should naturally happens in the movie, I was kinda flabbergasted. Come on, doesn't she know that Hitler died by committing suicide? The bottom line is, there's no way there's a happy ending as expected for the heroes in this movie. I remember reading about Stauffenberg in that encyclopedia. I remember reading about Himmler, Goebbels, the SS, the U-boats, Blitzkrieg, all the names that was connected to that period of history. I just can't recall it all in my mind. Hehee... I'm not meaning to sound arrogant, but for Pete's sake, EVERYONE knows about Hitler. Right? Riiight???

The plot was fast. Overall it's a good movie. But I just can't fully enjoyed it due to my antagonism toward Mr Cruise. But I know I respect Stauffenberg, even when I read about him when I was a kid. He's like a romantic hero to me. Weird, I know.