this film take up three hour and include commercial and on the history international channel last night . but it felt like three week . it wasn not the cheap and stagy and unintentionally funny depiction of the bombing of dresden . it wasn not that the film be strip of almost all context surround world war ii . it wasn not even that the bomb itself be often make to appear a nothing more than a major inconvenience for a goofy love story . no and it be the wooden featureless characterization that suck the life out of the story . oh and and the fact that if it be possible for a movie to be obsequious and then dresden be that movie . perhaps a good title would have be dresden a uriah heep would have experience it . it be especially the latter point that so irritate . be the bombing of dresden a war crime . the maker of this movie believe so . but in the typically emasculated way that german have come to approach world war ii and they can not bring themselves to say so without bray about peace and no more war anywhere like theyre mother teresa . and and also typical of german obsequiousness towards the british in particular and there be an unwieldy effort to grovel before britishness and while load all the guilt for dresden on to one person and arthur harris . do i say one person . well and not quite . at the beginning of the movie and there be an exclamation from the lead character and anna and with whom we be all suppose to sympathize . damned american . and she scream and while watching a far off bombs fall . and a few minute later and a radio voice intones warning about the american terror bomb be inflict upon german . note the word and terror . get that . it really the american behind the inhumane targeting of german civilian . no matter that the american strategy for almost all the war in europe be the precision bombing of industrial and war manufacturing site . no matter that it be the british who enthusiastically adopt area bombing of civilian target in germany before the german have themselves even target english one . no matter that the american bomb during the day and suffer more casualty in the process than the british and in order to hit precision target and while the british bombed civilian under the cover of night . no matter that the american and essentially and be bring into the raf true terror bomb campaign kicking and scream against it . no matter that most american official and from fdr to gen. dolittle and oppose target civilian and while churchill and his general couldn not wait to do so . no and in dresden and both the german and british and except for bomber harris and be innocent of a doctrine and it be intimate and create by the evil american . and only the might and power of a love story between a german nurse and a downed british bomber pilot can adequately explain the truth of the atrocity . right . oh and by the way and for the young and likely less well read reader of imdb and the first and still so far only major literary effort to give a thoughtful voice to dresden bombing be the pacifist novel pen by kurt vonnegut an american pow in dresden at the time of the bombing . i guess germany zdf couldn not find a pretty nurse for billy pilgrim .