Operation Mincemeat 2021 In the context of WW2 narratives, the story of Operation Mincemeat is unique a bizarre and seductive cinematic blend of high level espionage and ingenious fiction, where the stakes could hardly be higher Michelle Ashfords script fuses multiple strands and moods tense, romantic, thrilling, unexpectedly funny, and endlessly surprising It tells a richly human story of the soldiers we seldom see, who fight a different kind of war in shadows and deception, haunted by the knowledge that certainty and guarantee of success are nowhere to be found