british breakdown: While Boris Johnson has named his favourite film as Dodgeball for once, eerily believable as the great British breakdown goes on it is easy to imagine him waving a tiny Union Jack at Carol Reed's majestic noir, according to The Guardian. It is true, of course, that there could be no better moment for The Third Man to reappear just not as a cosy patriotic treat. Often hailed as the finest film Britain ever made, a 70th anniversary re-release will see it return to cinemas with the government much in the market for symbols of national grandeur. Rather, it is a cold premonition of no-deal Britain. We are where we are in no small part due to endless British war films convincing a generation born in the 1950s that they had lived through the Blitz and could only be happy back in it. In that, there is a certain poetry.
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