Reinhard Heydrich was Hitler’s third highest ranking officer, who had earned himself nicknames such as the Butcher of Prague and the Blond Beast. The Czech government was in exile in London at the time, and they sanctioned Operation Anthropoid: to assassinate this animal in Human Form.
Narcopolis tells of a city where recreational drugs have been legalised, which has taken the production and sales of these now mainstream drugs out of the mob into the hands of capitalist pharmaceutical corporation Ambro.
Let me first say it is a beautiful movie. A biopic about Stephen Hawking it is not however.
I wasn’t expecting a science class, but I was expecting just a bit more of the scientific insights that make this man brilliant to come through in the movie – but they don’t. But, once you accept that and experience it as a romanticised story of the relationship between Hawking and his first wife Jane, it delivers.