Gaming: 1917

Rating: 8/10 (12 January 2020)

The Oscars are coming closer - and with them, the more demanding films in the cinema are also piling up. With "1917" Sam Mendes presents after JARHEAD again a highly interesting war movie. The First World War is raging, British troops want to attack the German troops, who are supposedly in retreat, when suddenly the British headquarters learn that it is actually an ambush. Two young soldiers, Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay), receive the order to warn their comrades. A race against time begins, which Mendes shows without a visible cut. The aesthetics are not accidentally reminiscent of video games: Through the gaming theme, the film can tell a lot about the nature of cinema, computer games and war.