October 28, 2013
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Wings
I am reviewing the film Wings which is very good and which a friend lent me on dvd. I think this film is Russian but on the dvd there is an english language option. It's quite a charming film and the animation is pretty good. It is very much a children's film but I think it very much deserves a wider audience in the west. The plot is there are airplanes which are most of the characters along with things like tanks. An airplane happens to be in the right place at the right time and gets mistaken for another plane who was due to be sent to another airfield for training in acrobats for a contest. At the airfield is a lady plane who is in a relationship with the current acrobats champion plane and he isn't too happy to see he may have competition. Apparently he has only won the contest through cheating. Anyway at the airfield the coach has disappeared in a kind of retirement and the newbie has t o convince him to come out of it. The newbie turns out to be pretty good at acrobatics and it looks like he is going to win the acrobatics but the current title holder will go to any lengths to hold on to his title and his girlfriend. One interesting thing about the film is how the modern aircraft have to share the airfield with other older aircraft & all are military. I remember reading quite a long time ago how the Russian army never retires vehicles like tanks and even has some from the Second World War where as in the west they retire them after a decade or so and mostly scrap them or put them in a museum. I think this is nicely captured in this film. I really enjoyed this film.
