Journey's End

2018 "Innocence Lost... Courage Found"
Journey's End
6.7| 1h48m| R| en| More Info
Released: 16 March 2018 Released
Producted By: BFI
Country: United Kingdom
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Official Website: https://gooddeedentertainment.com/journeysend/
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Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

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denis888 Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 4 stars out of 5, calling it "expertly cast and really well acted: forthright, powerful, heartfelt." I cannot agree more with that. Journey's End is a powerful depiction of what all bleakness, rudeness, booze, pain, suffering, trauma, shock, death, blood, vomit, sweat and mud are all about - they are all elements of brutal, merciless, sad, sick, dirty, even filthy, muddy, very crual and very shocking war. WWI is never forgotten due to such awesome yet deeply tragic movies, so this one does its job well. A stellar cast of Asa Butterfield - Second Lieutenant Raleigh, Sam Claflin - Captain Stanhope, Paul Bettany - Lieutenant Osborne, Tom Sturridge - Second Lieutenant Hibbert, Toby Jones - Private Mason, Stephen Graham - Second Lieutenant Trotter, Robert Glenister - The Colonel - among others - is a huge asset here, as all these very British actors show how unberable and awful war was. This deep, thick, fat, gurgling mud is omnipresent here, and this is the very symbol of that war - trenches, death, poor food, poor health, shock, traumas, alcoholism, endless waiting, and then - sudden, bleeding, vomiting war. The movie is a must, but be warned - this is a very depressing one
LouieInLove For those who think The Great War (or WWI) is out of contact, that those involved are all gone as are many of their children, think again. It's now 100 years since it ended but my Grandfather fought in it & I'm only in my late 30s.He died when I was three but I do have two vague memories of him. One where he was lifting me up & the other where I was stood holding onto his leg as he sat. The latter of these two memories is more vivid because I recall feeling a sunken hole in his leg. Years later I found out that this hole was due to an injury he sustained during the war - he was blown up. He survived but his commanding officer (who was stood next to him) died.My grandfather lay unattended for over a day. When he was eventually found he was close to death. Two German POWs carried the stretcher that took him to safety with my Grandfather occasionally having to raise his arm to show life in order to prevent them dumping him onto a corpse pile.After the war he became a miner & it was this profession that had its hands on his eventual death (lungs). This film concentrates on the officer-class (as do the majority of films about The Great War). Nevertheless, I understand this, for there is no Hollywood glamour in being working class rank & file, but, it was the rank & file who truly bore the brunt of trench warfare & I wish their stories were truthfully told - It is no coincidence that a huge surge in the Labour/socialist movement followed WWI. Working class bitterness towards the elite classes after this war was warranted & it's a disgrace that contemporary upper class historians (Dan Snow) attempt to dilute elite class responsibility for the horrors of WWI. The actors in this film do a good job. The story runs smoothly & is accessible. The actors
expostfacto-85100 On first accounts you are immediately grabbed between a british war film and the lack of consciousness of American films. The film holds no relevance if it was original theatre form as a trench wouch perfectly suit the "walls closing in" feeling of a filthy rat infested trench.The rats are over looked, here are men preparing for battle and they cannot kill a rat. At there greatest moment of dehumanising the characters are turned inside out, like a mirror they see their inner consciousnesses. Interesting Bettany was going to play Claflin, but the director found Bettany's display of strength for all the men altering the story. Only at the end when Bettany cuts himself shaving and begins parting with his most important items during a routine raid does one see him begin to ravel. His is the archetype of love in the film, as not as just joung Ask Butterfield quickly bonds with him Claflin the unit commander stating death in the eyes breaks down after Bettany dies and lets his teats pour down Ask, his nephew who he has barely said a word too, Bettany has transcended the fact he will died in that muddy disgusting trench, who the Unit Commander, holding onto hos last threads of sanity, still believes in his drunken delusional state he willl survive. Seems mentally unconsciously safe in the bunker, his only 2 moments of "love" remove him from the setting of the war but won't pivotal plot moments. The mood, the atmosphere, the foreboding the dark walls reflecting of a grim reaper all sum up what the Nolan brother's could have served up in Dunkirk, instead of a rubbish American we all hours of our lives on. The gorgeous Ask Butterfield, Trotter, Mason, and weakling soldiers are allowed character development, evn the stern General you see three brief times, one is allowed he is "I couldn't really give a damn. Two majors errors that ruin movie, calling it"Journey's End" meant as well knew before it started the outcome, even if your knowledge of the Spring German Offensive, and in no army in the world is a soldier allowed to ask the division he wishes to join, especially as such a young age, the alter ego of a brush care-a-less General who know the Germans where attaching in 3 days times would not send his grandson his grave. Paul Bettany such an established actor now is a waking academy award. It is time he receives that award.
arcsamarfouad I watched the movie for Sam,paul and Asa they are my favorite actors in all their works especially Asa and Sam ,, but the story or the script diminshed their acting abilites a great deal ,,, the movie was mostly under ground people eating and preparing food ,, there were so many food scenes than war scenes also there were a lot of plot holes as We didn't see the relationship between the young soldier Raleigh and Captain Stanhope from school not one scene even to clarify how they were before these hard times ,,, didn't know if they were friends or just a fiance to his sister nothing more Not one good memory of good flashback came to any of the soldiers' minds as they were in this horrible place not one scene ?? When Captain Stanhope first saw his young friend he didn't act properly didn't discuss it further with him as they didn't know each other at all ,,, wasn't caring much about him till the last scene of the movie that was so disappointing They portrayed his alcoholism but it didn't affect his leadership abilites at all the last scene when Asa's character died that was the only scene I liked and was moved by it they were brilliant and showed how much they could have used them to more drama and more friendship scenes between them