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Dec. 27th, 2018 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellery_queen52I just saw this movie today and it’s one of the best war movies I’ve ever seen and probably in my top movies of the year. The editing, colorizing, effects, everything combined to make a movie about the people in the war really human.
In the best tradition of war movies, nothing is censored. Neither the dead bodies tangled in barbed wire, not the dead bodies carpeting the trenches and no-,man’s-land, not the piles of dead horses, not the reality of dirt and blood nor the unsanitary conditions are glossed over. There are scenes of captured German soldiers and British soldiers being friendly as well as footage from a charge over No Man’s Land. Just about everything is accompanied by the scream and thump of artillery.
In a voiceover one of the soldiers tells how if someone died or was wounded in the middle they were just left there and were plowed under the tanks. In a lot of the scenes at the front there were incidental dead bodies everywhere.
Also the soldiers were weirdly human. In one trench they saw the camera and froze, thinking it was some kind of still camera. In another area a man tripped into a ditch while looking backwards at the camera. In another one a soldier called to his fellow soldiers that they were on camera a lot like a modern day guy would. In another scene just before a battle a young soldier was petrified with terror and the only way you could tell he was alive was the soldier next to him smoking.
I very much liked this movie and I’m glad I got to see it. Being in a movie theatre definitely was worth it. It's one of my favorites this year.
