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Jul 02, 2018INVS rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This has been my second viewing of the film after 2 or 3 years & I've come to admire it more so. David Haig is responsible for bringing it to the wider audience as film & he portrays R. Kipling so well (as if I intimately know what RK was like.) The story apparently follows closely the facts, except the time period the parents continued their search for definitive answers. I was somewhat surprised the domestic scenes were film in Ireland, which lended great beauty to the film. For me it provides extreme truth about war, old men call for young me to fight, struggle & often lose their lives. Kipling sang a different song in retrospect. If anyone has any doubt as to the reality of trench warfare keep in mind that those muddy crater holes were filled with decaying body parts of men & animals, body wate & often unspent explosives. Few films explicitly display this. There is good reason this is still referred to as The Great War and that we honor it this 100th anniversary year.