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The toy dolls

With a love triangle involving friends, the obvious point of moral attack has to do with BETRAYAL. Fine, this story shows one friend feeling terribly betrayed, and the other feeling terribly guilty about it all. But theres a bigger picture here, which I felt terribly betrayed when it was ignored. The bigger picture has to do with the absurd historical irony that Czech pilots would be fighting in England on the side of England at all, considering that bigger picture. If you want to talk about BETRAYAL in this context, dont you think youd better foreground the shameful betrayal of Czechoslovakia by the British, when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler by abandoning the smaller nation to him in hopes of achieving for England at least Peace in our time? Yet in Dark Blue World, a film featuring members of the Czech air the toy dolls who escaped from the Nazis invading their homeland and across Europe to come to England to risk their lives in the cause of the nation that betrayed them, passes over this dicey bit of backstory so quickly that if you didnt already know about it, it will pass right over your head into the pretty blue yonder. The betrayal of Czechoslovakia by the British is the hundred pound gorilla this film, made in Britain, all but ignores. Maybe the filmmakers didnt want to bite the hand that provided the location and all the rare, museum piece airplanes used for those cool dogfights. Obviously, were not on the same ethical scale as trading Sudetenland for peace, but at some level you have to wonder what exactly the deal was here. Alright, time to cut to the chase. I claimed to have seen something in the material that the artists missed, that is, the story that was crying out at least to me to be sculpted from this material, so Id better shut up and put up, Heres How They Should Have Done It: Instead of making both pilots Czech, the friendship should have been between a Czech pilot and an English pilot. That would have shored up the problem of contrast between their two fates in the postwar period, with the British flyer getting the girl and a heros welcome. More importantly, in this way, all the incipient bad feelings and moral judgment connected with the English betrayal of Czechoslovakia could be channeled onto the English pilot when he steals away the poor, homeless Czech pilots girl. The architypal or cliche-ridden way bring such a set up to satisfactory conclusion is to have the Czech forgive the English pilot, and to do so in the ultimate way, by laying down his life for him, even though he doesnt deserve it. Then we cut to a supporting character who goes home to prison instead of a heros welcome, skipping all the ineffective flashbacks and covering all the bases which should have been covered anyway. Im not the toy dolls this entirely dispenses with another problem of the film, which had to do with a second betrayal, that of the Czech people by their own government and citizens under Communism, which when all was said and done, wasnt much different than if theyd have stayed part of the German Reich but lets let that one go. As it is, Im embarrassed to be spending a film review essentially betraying the filmmakers by reviewing the film I wished theyd made instead of the one they did. On the other hand, I probably wouldnt have written a word about this film if I didnt have the chance to use it as a springboard for further musing on the possibilities latent in the material. Perhaps that was a bad idea. Or, perhaps talking about the film that might-have-been was actually a good idea, only Ive missed something obvious, and botched it once again. In which case, I would quickly make the case, contra Fitzgerald, that the toy dolls ideas play an important role in scouting out all the artistic dead ends that later artists are thus able to avoid, minesweeping as it were. Meanwhile, I have one last embarrassing confession to make: I just went back and looked up that essay by Scott Fitzgerald and discovered that it wasnt exactly focused the way I said and thought it was and have made use of it here. In other words, the idea of an essay on botching good ideas was latent in his material, even if Fitzgerald didnt precisely see it. What Fitzgerald should have written oh, forget it. 169 2002 Cornerstone Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Writer Chinni Krishna is the same writer who provided script for Allu Arjuns Gangotri and now he is again providing the script for Bunnys Badrinath with director VV Vinayak. Chinni Krishna met with Allu Arvind a couple of years back and asked him to give a chance to direct Bunny for Badrinath. But Arvind refused to do so. Chinni Krishna challenged Arvind that one day Allu Arvind will be the hero for the script of Badrinath. The same thing is happening now, but director is changed Chinnikrishna to VV is a high budget film with extraordinary production values and has a high budget plan like Magadheera. Allu Arjun and Tamanna Bhatia play the male and female lead roles.