They Shall Not Grow Old honors the fallen of World War One with cinematic flare, and poignant tragedy in that many of these men never knew that they'd one day be in the movies (about real world history) and would fight for their grandchildren to relish the peace they died to uphold.
This is historical cinema brought to life by being recreative AND giving 1-to-1 honest commentary on the war thanks to archival recordings played throughout the film. This is a documentary that tries being informative about the past by recreating it with the technology of the 2010s. This film must have been a nightmare to brainstorm in a way that made sense to 2018 cinephiles/documentary-junkies.
Thankfully the film is a well done tribute to fallen soldiers where some of them never returned home alive, but this film gives a full-bodied picture of the early 20th-Century and gives the era depth by making it 'talk and breathe' in this movie.
They Shall Not Grow Old gives a voice to the long-passed soldiers of World War One and makes sure they're immortalised in an ever-complicated landscape of modern documentary cinema.
Hopefully more documentaries covering more periods of modern history will follow this film's innovative remixing of our understanding of the 'old' modern world.
This is historical cinema brought to life by being recreative AND giving 1-to-1 honest commentary on the war thanks to archival recordings played throughout the film. This is a documentary that tries being informative about the past by recreating it with the technology of the 2010s. This film must have been a nightmare to brainstorm in a way that made sense to 2018 cinephiles/documentary-junkies.
Thankfully the film is a well done tribute to fallen soldiers where some of them never returned home alive, but this film gives a full-bodied picture of the early 20th-Century and gives the era depth by making it 'talk and breathe' in this movie.
They Shall Not Grow Old gives a voice to the long-passed soldiers of World War One and makes sure they're immortalised in an ever-complicated landscape of modern documentary cinema.
Hopefully more documentaries covering more periods of modern history will follow this film's innovative remixing of our understanding of the 'old' modern world.