Obsluhoval jsem anglick

Наконец-то посмотрел "Я обслуживал английского короля" Иржи Менцеля. Из всех прочитанных отзывов самым дельным показался этот:

You can't easily summarize "I Served the King of England" as teaching some kind of historical lesson, but you can say that Jan becomes a Nazi collaborator and a traitor to his own country through an almost Forrest Gump-style combination of optimism, cluelessness and willful blindness. To some limited extent, he's aware of the larger historical narrative unfolding around him, but he doesn't see that it has any relevance to his personal affairs. When he sees a trainload of deportees in striped uniforms being taken away in a cattle car, he is touched and tries to bring them food and water. If Jan never learns the fate of his aristocratic former boss, the royalty-loving ma