This is an
awesome, powerful and very exciting film which its trailers can’t really encapsulate
simply because of the way it works. Shot to look like one continuous take 1917 brings the audience into trenches,
across No Man’s Land and beyond in an immersive narrative following two
soldiers on a vital mission. The thing is after a few minutes you start to
forget the camera trickery because it feels like you are there. OK we don’t have
the stench and the risk and the mud but as a cinematic experience of another
time and place this film comes closer than most.
Some – but not all -Spoilers beyond this
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