Art doesn't have to be realistic

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2020)

I think people miss the point. Yes the story seems very unrealistic at times. But this isn't a documentary. This is a movie that tries to give you a glimpse into WW I and is so much more about the feel than about the story.
It's about never resting, always running from something and to something, loosing friends, being torn between helping or killing, about the massive scale (both in distance and in human bodies) of this war, how bloody young these men were and what they were forced to do.
The longer I think about the story I too think it probably is much 'too epic' and unrealistic. But as I said, for me it's not a documentary, it's art. Go into a museum and look at paintings. Which ones are the ones that draw you in the most, that make you feel like you're there, that let you feel the atmosphere and that won't let you go? Well, for me these mostly aren't the realistic paintings. It's the expressionistic, the surrealistic and the impressionistic ones. Because it's not about how real it is, but where it takes you and what it makes you feel.