For the Moment (film)

For the Moment is a 1993 film written and directed by Aaron Kim Johnston and starring Russell Crowe and Christianne Hirt. The plot revolves around airmen training in rural Manitoba, Canada, with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during the Second World War. The main focus of the story is the wartime romance between Russell Crowes character and a local girl. Johnston was inspired to write the screenplay based on the stories of his father who was an instructor and bomber pilot in the war, and his mothers experiences as a young woman on the home front.

During a languid moment, Lachlan recites to Lill the poem, High Flight by fellow airman, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. which epitomizes what he is going through in his training. Lill recognizes the poem as it had been widely distributed after the death of the young airman who had penned it. The young lovers also have a kinship with another unlikely pairing, Betsy Wanda Cannon, a bootlegging charmer who sells more than alcohol and also has a husband away in the army and two children to look after, and Zeek Williams Scott Kraft, the flying stations chief flight instructor from Chicago.The short period that they have together is punctuated by the strain of dangerous wartime training and their inevitable realization that there is little time left for them. Lachlan has to deal with death from all sides, first when Scotty Robert G. Slade, the trainee who bunks next to him, commits suicide. More devastating is the death of Lills brother, Dennis Kelly Proctor that leads her to a fateful decision to end their relationship, and her sister to cancel wedding plans. When Zack crashes on the edge of the field, he extracts a cruel promise from Lachlan who later seeks out Betsy to tell her what he had to do. At the wings parade, a farewell to the trainees who have earned their wings who will be shortly sent off to war, Lachlan and Lill are unable to reconcile, but Kate remains true to Johnny, saying she will be there when he comes back. Across the parade square, Lachlan and Lill share a final moment, saying goodbye quietly, with a phrase he has taught her, Fair dinkum. N ........

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