Posted on 01/06/2020 9:00:43 AM PST by C19fan
The bleakly beautiful and intensely nerve-rattling “1917” (opening Friday) ostensibly is a war film set amid the brutal realities of trench warfare between England and Germany on the fields of rural France in World War I. And it is that, so much so that you can almost feel the mud and viscera ooze between your fingers when a soldier, who has landed in a pool of muck, mistakes a fallen fighter’s corpse for something sturdy and his hand plunges deep into a body cavity.
But “1917,” the latest film from director Sam Mendes (who made the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre” as well as the drama “American Beauty”), is also a horror movie of sorts, a very personal one in which the monsters aren’t supernatural creatures but merely other human beings fighting under a different flag. It just so happens that they are Germans, but they might as well be zombies, since that’s about as much character development they get.
As such, it’s a very simple story — will our heroes be able to survive the next few hours? — but it’s crafted with such filmmaking bravura and sense of hold-your-breath suspense that it’s one of the season’s most rewarding movie-going pleasures.
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Pink Floyd's "Us and Them" said it better than anything.
Plus it has a catchy opening tune.
Not exactly. The failed charge by lancers is a myth.
However the Poles did use Cavalry in the 1939 campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cavalry#Cavalry_charges_and_propaganda
Not exactly. The failed charge by lancers is a myth.
However the Poles did use Cavalry in the 1939 campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cavalry#Cavalry_charges_and_propaganda
My grandma’s brother fought in WWI.
When I was about 12 years old, I asked him to tell me about it.
He thought about it for about 5 seconds.
Then I watched his face turn gray.
He never answered me. He never said a word.
54 years later, and it still affects him like that. He must have seen some horrible stuff.
Damn straight I’m going to see this movie.
The Battle of Komarów 30AUG1920
Russo Polish War. The last cavalry battle using cavalry tactics instead of cavalry acting like mounted infantry.
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