Finally caught with it yesterday, and yes, it's a great film.
Like Parasite, there is not much you can say about it without risking spoiling a little the pleasure that others may take from it on first viewing. Let's just say that in both films, when unexpected things happen, they can come with quite a surprise/shock.
I do think it was snubbed at the Oscars in terms of the number of awards it got - and while I would agree that there was more to contemplate after viewing Parasite (it was thematically more complex), I wasn't moved by that movie in the same way I was in parts of 1917.
So personally, I would have liked to see Parasite get best international film and screenplay, but 1917 best director and best film. Sam Mendes is extremely talented.
One further comment: I wonder how the film went over in Germany. Did Sam once buy a really bad German car, or something? He co-wrote the screenplay, and it contains nothing in the way of a sympathetic or humanising portrait of the German fighters, as you find in some World War One films. (It is an easy war in which to show the common soldiers on both sides as victims of their bloody minded political and/or military leaders. But this film has none of that.) That doesn't detract from the film - I just thought it a little unusual and interesting to note.
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These poms still trying to justify their role in that disgraceful war.
probably the best film of the year. not as good as Dunkirk but a corker.
Who milked the cows?
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