Mendes immerses viewers in the young soldiers’ experience when they are sent on foot across no-man’s land with a message that could prevent a slaughter. Schofield (George MacKay) is not much older but seems world-weary, having already been in combat. Director Sam Mendes wisely takes the opposite approach, personalising the experience through two young British soldiers sent on a harrowing, high-stakes, night-long mission, he creates a film that is tense, exhilarating and profoundly moving.īlake (Dean-Charles Chapman) is that baby-faced soldier. Perhaps no film can capture the enormity of that war, which left around 17 million dead, and generations to grieve. The baby-faced soldier running toward the camera in 1917 perfectly captures what was so heart-breaking and haunting about World War One – all that innocence sent into battle, all those futures destroyed.
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