Topic: | Journey's End | |
Posted by: | Susan Kelly | |
Date/Time: | 03/02/18 16:07:00 |
Do you know, I had no idea that a soldier spent only 6 days a month at the front in WW1. Obviously 'only' is a relative term here but I must have watched too many episodes of Blackadder. Spring 1918. 2nd Lieutenant Jim Raleigh is straight out of public school and 8 weeks basic training on Salisbury Plain when he arrives at the front. He looks about 15. He asks to be assigned to the company run by his old school friend Captain Stanhope, not knowing that after 3 years Stanhope is a bad-tempered drunk. A major German offensive is expected and after only 3 days Raleigh's life is risked on a sortie into No Man's Land to try to 'bag a Bosch' for intelligence. I probably don't need to issue a spoiler alert when I say that the story does not end well. Closing captions tell us that 700,000 men died in the 1918 Spring Offensive to capture land which the Allies took back within a month. You wouldn't guess that this play is 90 years old. It feels very modern and is filmed in an almost documentary style. Very dark, in every way, set mostly in underground quarters lit by candles. There's some humour, mostly revolving round the food available in the trenches where Stephen Graham is standing in for Baldrick. It's riveting stuff with the cream of British male actors on display. |
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