Pressure by David Haig is not overwhelming, but I have enjoyed most of it – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant

 

Pressure by David Haig is not overwhelming, but I have enjoyed most of it – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant

 

7 out of 10

 

Brandon Fraser https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-note-on-gods-and-monsters.html is a very good actor, and his handling of the role of General Dwight Ike Eisenhower is excellent, although Jack Nicholson, or Geroge Constatin would have added panache, irony, and much more to this emblematic persona

 

Pressure describes events taking place during World War II, just before (and for some scenes during and after) D Day, the celebrated, magnificent landing of the Allied troops in France, a crucial operation for the fate of the war, which was depicted in some other fantastic motion pictures, such as The Longest Day, where the crème de la crème took part

There is also Saving Private Ryan, with astounding cinematography – I just remembered that one film maker said the only way to render the feeling of being at war to an audience is to have a machine gun and then somebody to shoot at them, while they are in the theater https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/saving-private-ryan.html we see in here the landing, as much as we can have a sense of it

 

Pressure has at the center a quote from General Dwight Eisenhower – ‘*Ike said simply “we had better meteorologists” …the most important weather forecast of all-time: D-Day, June 6, 1944*’ indeed they were preparing this massive operation, and there was a debate between Captain James Stagg and Irving Krick

The former insists that the weather will be terrible on June 5th, the initial day for the landing, while the latter was sure it will all be fine, a serious difference of opinion, but if Stagg would be correct and the operation were to go ahead, the results would be calamitous, almost all the troops would be lost in the waves or killed otherwise

 

Andrew Scott https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/blue-moon-written-by-lorenz-hart-robert.html has played a paramount role in Blue Moon, the best film of 2025 for me, and he was formidable in the latest adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, in Pressure, we have the same talent on display in the portrayal of James Stagg

General Dwight Eisenhower insisted that he had had good results from Irving Krick, when he had asked for predictions in the campaign in North Africa, except that over there, the weather is almost always the same, and in the area of interest for D Day, there are different patterns and the captain insists on his forecast

 

Eventually, we have valor on display, and I can’t help making the comparison between Dwight Eisenhower (and all the other US leaders) and the orange clown   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html that had just organized bloody fights on the lawn of (what used to be) The White House, and then yesterday he insulted Italy by saying their PM ‘begged’ for a photo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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