1917 [4K UHD]

Amazing movie. Filmed with a single shot through the movie. Gives a very compelling look at WWI.

This is a great movie. I originally saw this on the TV. Of course it was edited and full of commercials and I wanted to watch the complete uninterrupted movie so bought the DVD. Now I can watch anytime in the future.

I enjoyed watching this flick very much and I definitely recommend it, but it’s not the Blockbuster Masterpiece that I expected based on the Oscar and critical reviews. Yes, it’s exciting and suspenseful and beautifully filmed, but for a “war movie” it’s nowhere near the caliber of, say, Saving Private Ryan or Full Metal Jacket. Yeah, so two green soldiers are ordered on a very risky mission and encounter lethal dangers along the way. Really more of a buddy-adventure movie than a war movie. I was highly impressed with the attention to detail and production quality of this film, which did a masterful job of replicating the military gear and ugly (and muddy) trench warfare of WWI. There are some fabulous scenes, so I want to repeat that it’s a very good film. I should mention that there is way less blood and gore than I anticipated. In fact, would personally rate the violence at a “PG-13” level... Nothing more violent than what you’d see on your average TV cop show. I suppose the R rating must be for salty language, which is loaded with F-bombs. (More F-bombs than real bombs — haha.)

It was a good movie , sort of slow

The one-shot photography is remarkable - this is not a movie that you can "half-watch". You sit down and before you know it you are immersed in the horrors of WWII's static warfare and can't move until it's finished.

The recording style, the soundtrack and the special effects, take you to the First World War, it's just amazing this movie

Great, but too solemn for a 2nd watch.

In 1917 Director Sam Mendes has left us with more than just another film of war. A clue lies with the term “Gehenna” (aka - hell, hades, limbo, catabasis) used for the title of a movement in the film’s music score – he is clearly alluding to the layered meanings of this remarkable film. 1917 is an allegory of yet another allegory nearly 3,000 years old. It demands repeated viewing to absorb its nuanced and symbolic iconography. The landscapes of dark beauty, the liturgical score and most of all the unbroken camera flow that rarely breaks from the protagonists every step work subliminally much as a dream. Veterans who have survived combat might cast a memory of war beneath shut eyes this way. It connects you to the experience of a soldier at his own level. Few other films of this genre compare. The ancient Greeks believed we come here with “sealed orders.” Lance Corporal Schofield and Corporal Blake are ordered to deliver an army command message that would save 1,600 men from annihilation. It’s a race against time. The first hour of 1917 could be entitled “catabasis” from the epics of Homer – a term we can apply appropriately here to describe the sacrifice of a nation’s children in war. The graphic depiction of “no man’s land” separating the British and German front lines leaves little to your worst imaginings. In the second hour, when Schofield awakens from a fall, he discovers his watch has stopped. Is he therefore even still alive? As he steps into Ecoust, a city of burning rubble, we enter the underworld with him. His solitary journey here is now so much that of book 6 from Virgil’s “Aeneid.” For Schofield to “go over” he must first complete his task. He must kill to survive, shun the pleas for an orphaned infant, nearly drown in a river (the Styx?) near Crosillies, climb over an island of dead civilians, and only then in a quiet forest find the Devon Rifle Company he was seeking. A soldier can be heard singing “I Am A Lonely Wayfaring Wanderer” - a hymn of warriors free of woe, crossing "the Jordan" to return to their parents in death. It is one of many carefully engineered symbols throughout the film, each of them a paradox. In the suspenseful and relentless race against time that governs the final 20 minutes of the film Schofield staggers, exhausted, shell shocked, dogging a rain of shrapnel through the surreal chalk trenches to reach his destination and deliver the message. And also deliver another more personal message of his own. Shall all these phantom warriors yet find their way to “Elysium” in the tender green fields of Belgium? Schofield carried with him a photo of his wife. On the reverse she had written “come back to us.” Virgil's Aeneid was a poem of the Trojan wars. It addressed war with the subliminal aesthetics of that time as civilization’s great nightmare, and mankind’s greatest test. It remains relevant today and going forward. That aesthetics rather than reality can leave an emotional and not only an intellectual comment is the truest definition of art

If like myself you watch films to also appreciate the various movie making skills on display you will find 1917 a very rewarding experience. The technical merits on show here are first rate including three Academy Awards for cinematography, visual effects and sound mixing. Your eyes and ears are truly treated to a visual and aural feast. This reviewer found the cinematography in particular was first rate. It’s also not a spoiler to state that this is NOT an action war film, it merely tells a tale that could take place during any stand off that has occurred throughout the centuries between the different races of humans. The Blu-ray presentation of this film is also first rate with outstanding picture and bone rattling audio that will impress anyone with a decent home theatre setup.

Excelente.

1917 ist ein filmisches Meisterwerk, das nicht nur durch seine ergreifende Geschichte, sondern auch durch seine beeindruckende technische Umsetzung besticht. Das herausragende Merkmal des Films ist zweifellos die Verwendung des One-Shot-Stils, der den Zuschauer auf eine einzigartige Reise mitnimmt. One-Shot-Technik (5/5): Der One-Shot-Stil, bei dem der Film so erscheint, als wäre er in einer einzigen ungeschnittenen Aufnahme gedreht, ist atemberaubend. Diese Technik taucht den Zuschauer tief in das Geschehen ein und schafft eine beispiellose Immersion. Die Art und Weise, wie der Kameramann Roger Deakins die Kamera durch das Schlachtfeld und die Schützengräben bewegt, ist beeindruckend. Es erzeugt ein Gefühl der Dringlichkeit und des hautnahen Erlebens, das den Film von anderen abhebt. Schauspielleistung (5/5): Die schauspielerischen Leistungen in "1917" sind erstklassig. Die Hauptdarsteller, George MacKay und Dean-Charles Chapman, liefern beeindruckende Darbietungen und vermitteln die Emotionen und den Schrecken des Krieges auf eindringliche Weise. Die Nebendarsteller, darunter bekannte Gesichter wie Benedict Cumberbatch und Colin Firth, tragen ebenfalls zur überzeugenden Darstellung bei. Regie und Drehbuch (5/5): Sam Mendes hat einen herausragenden Job geleistet, sowohl in der Regie als auch als Mitautor des Drehbuchs. Die Geschichte ist packend und einfühlsam erzählt, und die Spannung bleibt von Anfang bis Ende erhalten. Mendes' Vision und sein Geschick bei der Inszenierung des Films sind bewundernswert. Visuelle Effekte und Sounddesign (5/5): Die visuellen Effekte und das Sounddesign tragen maßgeblich zur Intensität des Films bei. Die Schlachtszenen sind realistisch und mitreißend, und die akustische Gestaltung verstärkt die Spannung und die Atmosphäre. Gesamteindruck (5/5): "1917" ist ein herausragender Film, der nicht nur als ein technisches Meisterwerk des One-Shot-Films, sondern auch als ein zutiefst bewegendes Kriegsdrama beeindruckt. Die Kombination aus brillanter Regie, exzellenter schauspielerischer Leistung und der eindringlichen One-Shot-Technik macht diesen Film zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis. Er verdient definitiv seine Lobeshymnen und Auszeichnungen. Insgesamt ist "1917" ein zeitgenössisches Meisterwerk des Kinos, das sowohl technisch als auch emotional überzeugt. Der One-Shot-Stil verschmilzt nahtlos mit der fesselnden Erzählung und schafft einen Film, der noch lange nach dem Abspann nachhallt. Eine absolute Empfehlung für Filmbegeisterte und Liebhaber anspruchsvoller Unterhaltung.

Jw

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