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Rating: 8/10 (4 April 2020)

The story line of "1917" is very simple. It tells the story of two soldiers who go to the front during world war I to serve an evacuation mission.
But the film's redemptive dialogue, metaphors and hidden texts save its otherwise thin plot and keep its so-called one-shot technological marvel from being showy.
What was supposed to be an immersive experience of the technological age turned out to be an allegorical masterpiece, possessed by tarkovsky's soul. If the first world war were to be replaced by another war, even the war against epidemics in which we live, it would seem to have more meaning.