Stephen A Seche

Like all great war films, 1917 is at its heart an anti-war film, putting on display the utter stupidity of men killing men who share the same dreams of returning to family and home but who first must take up arms b/c of their leaders’ failure to imagine another way forward at a moment of consequence. This is an intense and very personal journey for a young lance corporal with an extraordinary sense of duty to country and his comrades. We are proud of him, we are touched by his humanity and ultimately we are saddened by the fact that making war is what we ask of our sons and now, our daughters.