A disconcerting film

Rating: 8/10 (5 March 2020)

We went to the cinema with our English teacher to work on our notion : "Myths and heroes". Nowadays the First World War is far away, while a lot of people died for us, they are the real heroes.
First of all "1917" is technically impressive, the landscape is just awesome, we saw real work on it. Moreover Dean-Charles Chapman and George Mackay are wonderful; they are like real soldiers and immersed themself in their character and make us travel.
In my opinion they will receive a lot of prizes !
Secondly the story is poignant, we feel a lot of sadness and even pain for Blake when he died , the other side of the coin is that we saw a lot of blood (that was a bit disgusting).
In fact we become soldiers, real soldiers !
Nevertheless something disturbed me a lot, why didn't they take place in a plane ?
We saw several allied planes during the film, even by detouring, the message could gave been transmitted faster.
Anyway the film is beautiful even if we saw the worst humain thing : war.
Last things last, at the end, credits show us "thanks to H.Mendes" probably the grand father of Samuel Mandes, director of the film. In fact this story is real (or at least some part) and that enhances the beauty of the film.

You should try to see it !!