While not a conventional holiday film by any stretch, 1917 speaks to a season known for emotion and togetherness.
nominations, including best drama), “1917” follows Lance Cpls. Schofield and Blake on a life-or-death mission to deliver a message and save 1,600 fellow military men – one of them Blake’s older brother .
In a busy period of awards-ready fare and pop culture blockbusters, here's why “1917” stands out as a must-watch this holiday:Mendes’ grandfather Alfred was a messenger in the British Army who served in World War I from 1916 to 1918, and while “1917” isn’t about him specifically, the seed of it came from a story Mendes was told as a boy of 10 or 11.
For example, when the two soldiers move across the silent carnage of No Man’s Land, “you want to see the characters small in the vastness of that awful panorama of death,” Mendes says. “And you want an audience to have the time for their eyes to wander. Is that a body? Do they see it? Do we see it? It's that sense of bearing witness to something rather than shoving it in their face."
The mission is Blake’s first real experience in war, and he’s taking it all in, while Schofield keeps his eyes straight, always moving forward, after having witnessed things that have shaken him emotionally and physically. “He has probably stopped writing home for the fear of what might happen to him, for the fear of there being a last letter that isn't in his control," MacKay says."So he's probably gone, 'I love you so much that I just can't speak to you right now.
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