Wednesday, February 20, 2019

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Director: Peter Jackson. 99 min. Rated R. Documentary. UK/New Zealand.

Why lie? I've always been against colorizing (i.e., popularizing) old films. But if we're in the same league, watch this - it'll change your mind. While not necessarily an attack on classic film sanctity, Peter Jackson's collage of restored, colorized and re-timed old World War I films, with background narrations from deceased veterans, will blow your mind. It provides a new back-drop for what it meant to go to combat one hundred years ago, and still comes to the same conclusion: that in war, the real enemy, is war itself. A nice example where form empowers content.

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