Sixty Glorious Years is an exercise in the creation of iconography, both for Victoria and its star, Anna Neagle (who subsequently became known as 'Regal Neagle'). Just as Elizabeth I commissioned artists to create flattering iconic images for public consumption, so this film performs a similar function, for Neagle is more beautiful than the real life Victoria. Controversial events (such as the 'Irish problem') are omitted and unpleasant aspects of Victoria's character (her petulance, arrogance, favouritism and 'right to privilege') are glossed over as endearing little 'whims'. Albert acts as a moderating influence when she goes too far.
The film followed a year after the highly successful Victoria the Great (d. Herbert Wilcox, 1937). Again the screenplay is by Miles Malleson and Robert Vansittart, and many of the supporting cast (the cream of acting talent of period) repeat their roles, this time for the colour cameras. This was the first full length Technicolor film of cinematographer Freddie Young, who captures the spectacle of royal weddings, grand balls and opulent interiors, with scenes actually filmed at royal palaces. Vivid battle scenes, set in Alexander Korda's empire territory (Sevastopol and the Sudan), rival those in The Four Feathers (d. Zoltan Korda 1939).
The title music sets the tone: a regal choir sings over a shot of the crown. Elgar's 1901 'Pomp and Circumstance' march is heard during the diamond jubilee celebrations and, as Victoria's coffin lies in state, the film concludes with Anthony Collins' stately music accompanied by the text of Rudyard Kipling's 'Lest we forget'. Combined with the emotional appeal of scenes of Victoria connecting with her 'ordinary folk', this is stirring stuff.
The film connects with contemporary events of 1938. The release of two celebratory royal films was intended to boost public affection for the monarchy in the wake of Edward VIII's abdication. Anglo-German relations were another touchy subject. With another war on the horizon, influential voices wanted appeasement, and the film could be seen to fit that agenda. Victoria herself was of mainly German descent, nicknamed 'the grandmother of Europe', while Albert is a 'good German', charmingly played by Anton Walbrook as a cultured, decent man.
Sixty Glorious Years now seems unduly formal and reverential. Had movies existed during Victoria's reign (they only emerged at the end) this might have been the kind of film produced. Unlike Mrs Brown (d. John Madden, 1997), it is all so very 'Victorian'.
Roger Philip Mellor
——没错，就是冈田准一。
确实如导演所说是一部“两边都不讨好”的电影
一句話也說不出來，土方你帶我走吧。
非常触动人内心的别样的战争片，全片没有激烈的战争场面却让人通过黑白碰撞和极简的对话意识到战争的残酷性。
画面太美了，风格想起让人《影》，内容想起《敦刻尔克》，整体还是像流水账了。
流水账，两个半小时我都看的够够的了，导演还是没把自己想剪的全剪进来的样子。
虽然想用两个多小时来概括副长在乱世壮丽的一生实在是有一点太赶了但是，，
非常独特的“学院派”，画面很有苏派的那种纪实感，叙事上有杂糅了一些新浪潮的风格。很多空镜和蒙太奇的运用又颇有中古山水禅意在其中，最后的血雨很有反战行为艺术的调调。挺新鲜。
6分，可惜鬼之副长波澜壮阔的故事拍成了流水账。
最后瓢泼而下的泥雨里，主色调由灰转红，枪响过后琴声渐起，鸡皮疙瘩掉了一地。
看完感觉有点不痛不痒，当是丰富日本历史之了吧…
犯了一大堆歷史人物傳記片的致命錯誤，同時節奏快到我完全看不懂劇情在演啥，這也算是新型態日本歷史片類型解鎖了吧😂😂。片長2小時半，本以為是節奏很慢的歷史片，殊不知節奏快到像是開1.5倍速在講故事，後面完全放飛自我，你看你的我演我的，拍的流水帳同時敘事又可以放飛自我到完全不讓觀眾跟上節奏，是原先初剪拍太長，所以乾脆調倍速濃縮成2個半小時嗎？不過倒是看到不少春季日劇檔的演員參與其中，山田涼介、松下洙平、柴崎幸、客串的柄本明，查了一下導演正是5年前拍出關原之戰的原田真人，是關原之戰拍的太沉悶，所以這部片就改用趕火車敘事嗎？這部片應該對熟悉日本史的人比較吃香，對一般觀眾來說根本大型車禍敘事現場。
国产战争片中的一股清流。艺术院线限定上映，幸好我没有错过。
低饱和的调色降低了我对血腥的不适感。
观看过程中内心一直很沉重，也被导演的表达方式所震撼。画面以黑白表现形式，有如水墨画一般，给观者以战争所带来的冰冷严酷之感，且赋予人物雕像般的立体感。影片伴随着洪启辰仰着头，沐浴在枪林弹雨隐喻的红色的血泊里结束，也是我全片印象最深之处，也引发我对于战争与生存、死亡与正义、道德与责任等价值观层面的深思。个人评分四星，另外母校滤镜多加一星。
惯常的叙事，一眼便能猜到的结局。三星打给视觉效果，低饱和度的显示风格削弱了血腥感。
我愿称之为国内最美的战争片，这种美来自于制作团队超高的审美，也来自于影片中在镜头和音效上的各种全新尝试。
突然意识到里面都是活生生的人，残肢、断臂、血液、暴雨，是苦的是挣扎的，是没有生的可能的。这八个人代表着在战争前的不同立场。不单纯的逃兵，搁置的谎言，反叛的敌军，坚定的信仰者，追寻团圆的孩子，迷惘的赴死者……
人性这个东西挺玄妙的
在无数次内心的挣扎后毅然赴死，这种本能求生到坦然赴死的转变刻画得很真实。
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