Not exact matches
The patron saint is Mrs. Oshima, who is usually outside laughing, telling stories, and serving alcohol in plastic cups to locals sitting
on beer crates covered with flattened boxes for padding.
Her bed had been raised by putting
beer crates underneath it (raising the bed is stand ard practise in The Netherland s as it facilitates things a bit for the midwife and also puts the bed at a good «lean -
on» height for labouring mama).
Where it's most effective is when it plays the up to the heroism of everyday citizens, driven less by altruism than hatred for the enemy, and in the telling little touches strewn through the film, like the carefully sharpened pencils lined up like soldiers
on the desk of a Gestapo officer, or the
crates of
beer from the collaborator's brewery stacked up at Gestapo HQ.
Furthermore, this was not measured
on a
beer crate in someones back - yard, but
on the historic Windsor Observatory which was built in 1863 by John Tebbutt F.R.A.S who had discovered The 1861 comet, and published many scientific reports in Astronomical Journals.