The Englishman who went up the hill but came down a mountain

At 1:30 in the night what on earth prompted me to open my laptop and pen down my thoughts? It is this movie "The englishman who went up the hill but came down a mountain".
Summary: Two English cartographers visit the small South Wales village of Ffynnon Garw, to measure what is claimed to be the "first mountain inside of Wales". It's 1917, and the war in Europe continues. The villagers are very proud of their "mountain", and are understandably dissapointed and furious to find that it is in fact a "hill". Not to be outwitted by a rule (and the Englishmen who enforce it), the villagers set out to make their hill into a mountain, but to do so they must keep the English from leaving, before the job is done. http://www.blogger.com/www.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/plotsummary


The movie captures emotions around some things which seem to be very trivial otherwise. It shows how the locals develop a bonding and take pride in the some objects in their surroundings. How those objects become the identity for those people and what those people are willing to do preserve their identity. Perhaps the movie isnt among most touching stories that one can come across. But the innocense of the characters definitely captures the attention.

The characters struggle to live with conflicting emotions, between priciples and practicalities, between cheating and honesty, in order to achieve a task that would restore their common identity. And to do so, they raise a hill to a mountain. To this day, according to the movie, it is a ritual in this village for the villagers and the tourist alike to take mud to the top of the mountain and preserve height of the mountain. Legends are thus created. It also symbolizes that it only take that little extra mile to make it big. Cute movie. worth a watch.