It bascially a collection of random quotes from a lot of nameless British soldiers who after the war tell what life in the trenches was like. There are some cute and scary stories about rats, the shelling and so forth, but why are they there in the first place?
You need to read up on The Great War before watching this, to appreciate it, because nothing about the war is explained, like who was fighting who , why and where. Not even the reason for digging the trenches is explained.
We see a lot of colorized images with dead people but are not told when, what and where. Was it at the battle of Ypres? Somme?
And the much appraised "technincal achievement"? Well, a lot of clips are basically reuse and taken from the magnificent documentary "Apocalypse: World War I" (can be found on You Tube).
This movie clearly lacks a narrator or some kind of structure. Disapointed.
You need to read up on The Great War before watching this, to appreciate it, because nothing about the war is explained, like who was fighting who , why and where. Not even the reason for digging the trenches is explained.
We see a lot of colorized images with dead people but are not told when, what and where. Was it at the battle of Ypres? Somme?
And the much appraised "technincal achievement"? Well, a lot of clips are basically reuse and taken from the magnificent documentary "Apocalypse: World War I" (can be found on You Tube).
This movie clearly lacks a narrator or some kind of structure. Disapointed.