Overall, good movie. Just don't expect anything unexpected.

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2020)

I went to see "1917" tonight as a sure way to cheer me up. Indeed, what better way to put a string of bad days into perspective than a WWI story! The Spanish flu - admittedly worse than COVID-19, as far as we know it - did not even need to be covered, since it broke out one year later and 1917 was horrendous enough in its own right.
Anyway. I was still irritated that the two "expendables" sent on a quest were consistently treated like s*** by the top brass (sender, receiver and the random motorized one with no situational awareness) and only got support from peers and mid level officers. That's way too predictable.
Then, there is the question of motivation : whether you're gung-ho or a reluctant follower, when you're expendable, you're not gonna expect fairness and the only question is how far you're going to push yourself and... yeah... why? Because you, somehow you're still a nice human being, in the middle of all that nonsense? Hence, you accept to be played and act more badass than the rest of the losers ?? Let's face it, most get mangled or killed, no matter their role or attitude. That's just l'esprit du temps (Or should I say, Zeitgeist? This movie could have been very similar, if shown from the Germans' perspective.)