The 'English' Boy in Striped Pyjamas

Since I have been in the history mode mainly World War II, watching documentaries and reading books, I thought I'd watch 'The Boy in Striped Pyjamas'. This is a movie based on the novel by the same name and is set in WWII.
The story was good and I think the director did a good job of capturing the emotions of the characters. But, they all spoke in frigging English accents.
Now, when we were kids and watched the Sound of Music, it really didn't matter. I was oblivious to different accents. When you're 7 you assume that all westerners have a weird, or being more polite, a different accent than you do. I couldn't tell who was British and who American, they all spoke English!
So while Julie Andrews strutted her English accent and Christopher Plummer was oh so American, I couldn't tell the difference. I assumed all Austrians spoke that way.
But now, in this time, Directors strive for authenticity and the audience wants it too.
Imagine watching a documentary with Hitler speaking in a thick southern American accent!
In Schindler's List, they may not have had the perfect German accents, but come on they didn't sound English or American except for the ones who had to.
Accent trainers are in the profession for a reason, use them.

Back and Wiser?

Where was I all this while? My usual excuse is busy with work, but it's true. I was busy doing extra office work which also included writing, though the kind which would people like me to sleep and give a mini-orgasm to business consultants. Oh don't worry no erotica involved, just boring sales proposals, which surprisingly I didn't think I had the knack for. Now that this talent has been discovered, I am just taking on extra work and ruining my weekends. Aren't I the 'Drama Queen'! So, I did not ruin all my weekends, just a couple.
In my spare time I have been buying books and reading them too. Have been hooked to history books now and I can't get enough. I am now slightly wiser and feeling a bit more intelligent, now that I have gathered more knowledge. Beware, don't say the words 'World War', 'Jews', 'India' (though India is not connected to the former two) when I am within earshot. I promise to talk so much that your ears might just bleed or worse fall off.
We all have phases don't we? I am now in the history phase and while I am there I want to read all the history I can get my hands on.
Well, just thought I'd show some signs of life here and write something, my blog has been quite lonely.