The immersivness of the organic

Rating: Null/10 (18 February 2020)

A fully immersive experience. Long shots are used masterfully, and near seamlessly, through out the movie. The planning of such an endeavour is done meticulously by Sam Mendes the director, yet leaving enough space for the unplanned and organic performace of the masterful performance of George Mackay and the natural context he performs in. The different forms of natural 'motion' coming out of the unplanned and planned simultaneously tell you a story that couldnt have been told otherwise. Every motion of a head...the eyes...the camera...the light...the body stance...the trees that appear to play an important role in the movie...all together you lose yourself in. That rich experience and how it revolves around one character brings out even more personal details from each audience member's personal life that then complements the already vivid experience making it even more emmersive.
In that respect 1917 is everything Dunkirk was not.
Where Dunkirk was a low-res generic overview of a situation including a large number of people...1917 is a hi-res focused image of an incedent of fewer people shown through the point of view of one person. This brings out the gritty, heroic and agonizing details of war presented with masterful real time long shots that grip your attention relentlessly through out the movie.