1917

 This is more like it.

I did not realize how much leather the Tommies wore. 

Sauchiehall Street is the name of a trench line 

George McKay again. This is just a coincidence- A colleague mentioned 1917 at work. 

One curious thing, seeing Adrian Scarborough as a British officer at the end broke my suspension of disbelief  I just remembered him from Gavin and Stacey. The film has a cast of British and Irish stage and screen stalwarts - Mark Strong, Mathew Doyle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth. With Richard Madden coming of his GoT fame

The plot is simple and direct. Two men are sent with an urgent message to stop a British  attack  1917 is filmed in one continuous take - Something I have not seen since that Johnny Depp movie 

I think it goes without saying that 1917 does a good job of portraying the horror of trench warfare. We see a world that is changing One Tommy rattles off a list of names of types of cherries Some sweet and some sour. He grew up on a farm with a small orchid  This is  knowledge that has faded. We see a Tommy milk a cow, to get milk. Knowledge which is now specialized 

The  2nd Devon's - One of the British Regiments seen in the film listen to a beautiful Non conformist hymn sang by one of their company 

In the skies Air planes fight. The modern world is being born and born violently. There are Indian and African origin soldiers mixed in with the Tommies. Obviously the whole world fought in the Trenches

 I think this is also to show the universality of the experience of war

It is a world of duty and camaraderie. Grief is always deflected with an order to see to ones wounds, food is shared, whiskey and smokes shared. Little moments of beauty in a world of smashed, twisted and smoky horror

A good two hours spent.