Soldiers 16~366
I took this photo in the foyer of my local cinema, looking down on the display advertising the film "1917". I saw it a few days ago. The Guardian reviewer gave it four stars but The List gives it three, as do I. Cinematographically it is very good. The costumes appear to me, no expert, to be accurate. The barbed wire entanglements in front of the British trenches are awesomely portrayed. However, having read several histories and memoirs about the Great War, and having conversed, in my youth, with men who had fought in the trenches, I found that the premise the film was based on to be unrealistic. Also the depiction of the battle areas seemed to me to be flawed in numerous ways. The director, Sam Mendes, even includes the cliché error, near the end of the film, of a British soldier saluting whilst bareheaded.
"1917" is not nearly as realistic as the German film Westfront 1918 made in 1930. Regrettably, I can only find an unsubtitled German language version of this.
Soldiers 16~366
I took this photo in the foyer of my local cinema, looking down on the display advertising the film "1917". I saw it a few days ago. The Guardian reviewer gave it four stars but The List gives it three, as do I. Cinematographically it is very good. The costumes appear to me, no expert, to be accurate. The barbed wire entanglements in front of the British trenches are awesomely portrayed. However, having read several histories and memoirs about the Great War, and having conversed, in my youth, with men who had fought in the trenches, I found that the premise the film was based on to be unrealistic. Also the depiction of the battle areas seemed to me to be flawed in numerous ways. The director, Sam Mendes, even includes the cliché error, near the end of the film, of a British soldier saluting whilst bareheaded.
"1917" is not nearly as realistic as the German film Westfront 1918 made in 1930. Regrettably, I can only find an unsubtitled German language version of this.