Think of England – Glasgow Film Festival
At the screening at the Glasgow Film Theatre during the Glasgow Film Festival, the festival director began with a small confession. Introducing a film called Think of England, he suggested, required a certain amount of bravery when standing in front of a Glasgow audience.
It got the laugh it deserved, but it also set the tone rather nicely for what followed. Because Think of England begins with a premise that sounds almost like a joke, and gradually becomes something rather more thoughtful, and occasionally rather unsettling.
Written and directed by Richard Hawkins, the film is set during the Second World War and built around a wartime rumour so improbable it almost feels invented, that somewhere within the labyrinth of British military bureaucracy someone proposed mak...