If the Irishman is about the passage of time ,1917 is about the immediate passage of time.
When British two soldiers stationed during World War One, are ordered to send a message to a battalion of 1600 British soldiers to stop an ambush by the German army. For the two Soldiers, the distance of the journey is the least of it.
Sam Mendes’ 1917 is the most realistic World War One theme park ride you’ll attend at the movies, with bombs going off you can feel, deafening shots you can absorb and real fear you carry for it’s two protagonists who are carefully walking the grim terrain of No Man’s Land. This paired with the idea of one shot, Roger Deakin’s sparklingly haunting cinematography and the co-writing of Krysty Wilson-Ciarns story of the human spirit and experience, 1917 is the saviour of cinema.
Created into one shot, 1917 makes the rest of the film as it goes on, feel like memories of the protagonists as your following the protagonists so closely and succinctly. You feel apart of them and as their experience, the film feels like those moments when you’ve driven somewhere and you can’t remember the drive, or when you find something you’ve been looking for and you can’t fathom how you found it. The experience is scary there being only two characters you’re following, knowing these soldiers are hungry and impatience, and when it’s all said and done, you imagine this being in this time period more, and outside of it you ask, how is this film making possible.
1917 is very much about the grip of the military forcing you to do things you shouldn’t in the malice of grain, but it ultimately adding up to nothing. The emotion is there from moment to moment as you know these soldiers deserve to be home with their loved ones as oppose working towards sudden death in the name of a country. 10/10.
- Maurice Jones
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