One of Britain’s chief Brexit negotiators has been saying how the film, Dunkirk has inspired him in his negotiations for Brexit.
Cliff Edge told the Herald, “It’s really inspirational even now. I don’t know what it is. A defeat to people who had all the advantages that gets painted as a victory is just amazing. The chaos depicted and then knowing Britain spent the next 4 years with its entire aim being to re-enter Europe. It’s all very inspiring.”
Cliff said he was able to relate to the swirling vortex of entropy that the British forces found themselves in in 1940. “They weren’t prepared to fight that war. They were being led by old men who weren’t prepared for the realities of the challenges they would face. I could see myself in the old men leading the youth to humiliation and defeat.”
Not everyone was happy about the film though. Frenchman Olivier le Strasse said the film plays down the contribution of the French.
Cliff told us, “It’s a film about Dunkirk. Vichy France didn’t really get underway until much later than the events depicted.
They weren’t really deporting Jewish people to death camps until 1942-1944. I don’t think they have anything to complain about.”
Brexit negotiations begin again on Monday.
