I'm not saying that watching a military film about the growing tide of fascism and the elections we make or surrender or fight back feels strange relevant these days ... But well, maybe that's exactly what I say. If there is a genre that we can rely directly to comment on our present -day political climate, after all, this is this. In recent years, World War II films have given us high water signs such as Oppenheimer and Particularly disturbing horror of the "zone of interest". But like watches, we always seem to get annual participation in titles ranging from "forgotten" to "purely wrong". (Excuse me, Mel Gibson, but I haven't forgiven you yet for "Hacksaw Ridge. That's mUh Harder-ever rewarded-to create something both timeless and urgent with a flawless effort.

"No. 24" (also stylized as "No. 24") accomplishes all this and more. Does not come with the title of "Christopher Nolan military epic" (Duncing fans know that he has done two of them. What makes this drama in Norwegian, instead, is much more muted, restrained and deep movement of the approach to a historical figure that most of us have never heard. While this is a dramatization of Gunnar Sanstebi's feats, the real -life hero, who opposed the occupation of Nazi Germany to Norway and became the highest decorated fighter in the country, the film is unlikely to enter the same traps of innumerable biopic. The results, frankly, are breathing fresh air in the genre constantly at risk of feeling stale.

Given that we are doing well at typical conventions or cliches, director Johnon Andreas Andersen and writer Erland Lo take what could be another unnoticeable biopic and turn "number 24" into one of the best, most respected military plays with years.

What kind of person is needed to face the attacking army of fascists and decide to risk everything to beat them? "Number 24" asks this question almost from the beginning. First we meet Gunar nowadays as an old man (played by Eric Huvi) whose persecuted neat transitions on the scenes with retrospective set in the beginning of Norway in Nazi Germany in 1940. Here, he notices early on, "in war, you must understand if you want to accept the situation in which you are and accept what will become your new reality, or stand against it and risk everything." Cutting emphasized the young Gunar (played with extraordinary steel and vulnerability by Sue Watn Brean), the script It seems To point out that he has made his choice when he turns to his accountant work as nothing happened - is not too different from the way we have fun at work, even while seeing that democracy bursts on social media stitches . However, the accidental encounter with underground combat resistance sets him on a path that will define everything ... not only his own life, but also the fate of his country.

Viewers can be distracted by the framing device that puts us in the perspective of an audience of students in today's Norway, attending a lecture conducted by Elder Gunnar. But despite delivering the game that the freedom fighter actually survives the events of the film, no moment of tension is sacrificed. This is for the most part because of the very specific deposits set by "number 24". Any act of resistance and rebellion can decide between life or death, of course, but Gunar puts it perfectly after asking his age (25, he confirms) and is informed that: “There is a chance you will get older. Did you think about it? "His sobering answer? "I can accept that." There is simply more risk than whether he lives or not.

His courage is not the only example of the screen throughout the "number 24", however. Wherever he turns around, fellow compatriots make similar choices: Local baker Ridun (Ines Husiter Aserson) facilitates secret meetings of resistors at risk of her well -being, captured soldier decides to like to die rather than cracking under ruthless Nazi. Torture and even their own Gunnar parents support him, despite knowing it, at any moment, their son's hidden identity as a resistance leader can come out and lead the SS right on their threshold.

Do not deceive yourself from the promise of explosive acts on sabotage, the destruction filled with CCI and all the usual vibrations of Aiisti-movie that accompany military films based on true stories like this. Although "Number 24" certainly includes several stranded pieces and cathartic moments of Norwegian "terrorists" that do everything in their power to force Nazi attackers from their country, Real The pleasure of watching this film comes from her attention to detail. There is rarely spycraft, fight against resistance and anti -fascism are shown with just as many minimalism - or ultimate disinterest in the blast - as it is here. Photograph Director Pal Ulvik Rocket is collecting his places for scenes with dramatic lighting, and even a few carefully selected moments of interpretive flowers (such as when we see Gunnar "Witness" at a particular event that he could not actually be in the room For either an unexpected, anachronistic fall on the radiohead needle), but otherwise accepts a dreary and washed color palette to match the hopelessness in the air.

This accent on worldly tricks descends to the very conspiracy of the film, where we are constantly treated with the forgotten and often non -sexy logistics to raise a secret network of fighters. That does not mean to say a moment of this narrative that ever meets boring, I warn you. Even while Gunnar serves as the "eyes and ears" of his thrilled government in Oslo, tirelessly doing the leg of building contacts and establishing trust and strategically avoiding Nazi patrols, we are faced with the extreme steps it takes to survive (and let alone progress) under such extreme circumstances. Gunnar does not allow no vices that can distract from the mission, be women or drink, and even take a moment to breathe easily, and we see the toll that this-and during his military past and his present on PTSD.

By the time we race to the emotional conclusion, the film plays its last hand and is revealed as careful meditation on the cost of struggle for freedom. The accords we make will be important and we will have no choice but to live with the consequences ... but isn't it better than the overturn in the face of authoritarianism? Gunnar Sanstebi presents the ultimate lesson to understand the weight of the situation and his story will leave you grateful that you have discovered this little known chapter in history.

"Number 24" is currently streaming at Netflix.