What do you think of'1917' (sam mendes 20 19 film)?

With three Golden Globe nominations (best drama, best director and best original music), and the best cinematography and best score awards awarded by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 19 17 firmly captured the hearts of the audience.

The theme of war movies is serious and heavy, and it is the main film released in the award season in the past few years. Amid all the noise and respect, the famous director sam mendes showed great humility. 1999, his debut novel American Beauty won the Oscar and the Golden Globe Award.

19 17 review: infatuation with flashy useless skills

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But can this two-hour "task movie" itself stand up to criticism? 19 17 is a movie full of vitality and narrow vision. The material of the film is directly related to Mendes himself-from a short story written by his grandfather based on his own experience.

Mendez's grandfather is a veteran who served as a front-line correspondent in World War I. This film more or less reflects Mendez's memories when he was young. However, this fact does not absolve the film from the criticism it deserves. Unfortunately-although it pays attention to details and narrative skills-1917 is a movie "The hero must survive, because he must survive". At the basic level, the film lacks continuous dramatic tension, which makes it look more like a narrative video game.

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John Maynard Keynes (The Vulgar Monster and Edgar White's upcoming film Soho fright night) tells the stories of two young British soldiers, Private First Class Scofield (george mckay) and Army Admiral Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman).

They received an almost impossible task: crossing the enemy lines, giving an urgent order to the British army to cancel the attack plan on the German army. 1600 The lives of British soldiers are at stake, including Blake's younger brother. Along the way, a series of familiar faces (including mark strong, benedict cumberbatch, Colin Firth and richard madden) appeared, enriching Scofield and Blake's journey stories, which are very common in war movies such as The Thin Red Line.

After making two Bond films (Heaven on 20 12 and Ghost Party on 20 15), Mendes made 19 17.

War is a theme he mentioned in the jar head (2005), when he was obviously interested in the moral dilemma his role faced. However, the aforementioned connection between Mendes himself and the story of 19 17 seems to have prevented him from finding the best way to tell this story.