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1917 is an unique epic World War I story. Unlike other classical war time movies, it's not an ordinary heroism story but the thrilling, hellish horror of a war story. A very honest. The soldiers are brave but modest. Main characters are not showing gorgeous heroism like some other classic war movies to consolidate audience feelings but also main characters honorable spirits never yielding. The heroes are two Bristish soldiers Schofield and Blake is tasked to an impossible mission by cruel commander, to carry a hand delivery message to an isolated battalion which prepares for an attack which will end with German army trap. The odyssey of two soldiers goes through horrors and the violence of war, the mud and the rotten corpses, rats, skulls, in the cold dark Rolling inside bomb pits, sniper fires at the barbed wires, deadly outraged enemies. Director Mendes made this film based with some of his grandfathers memoirs, strongly giving antiwar messages. Also casting is good, for example at the end, the soldier met with war loving commander (acted by Benedict Cumberbatch). It's nonsense to say war scenes are good, but frankly cinematograhically, pictures of the spectacular battlefields is excellent. This masterful film will be a new standart at war films category.

The movie I watched was actually taken with a very loyal mind to original José Saramago's book. When we look at the lower IMDb score that movie have taken, we realize that it is not often overlooked that this film deserved by the viewer. Sad but we are not surprised. Because it's a literary adaptation. Blindness is not suitable for young minds waiting for the story of post-civilization apocalyptic worlds like 'Mad Max' 'Waterworld' and 'God of Flies'. This is not the action that this generation expects, but the dark desperate world that goes bumpy in the feces is something beyond the comfort standards even for young people. I advice people to read the book first and than watch Julianne Moore acting.

La La Land is a musical and it is a fact that the current movie audience is different from the audience in the 50s who loved musicals. Even the great movies like dancing in the rain and an American in Paris where Gene Kelly dances are not being watched by the new generation who has grown up listening to this rock and other modern music. Some peoples initially say that 'the period of musical films has passed, this film does not do business. (but apparently the viewer liked this film.) However, La la land is opening with a stage where the people who stuck in the traffic, starts to dance with joyful drums playing jazz rhythm which also catches the audience. It is said that after people watch the movie they return home with a happier, better and higher mood. But in the La La Land, on the background is not only classic jazz, but a rhythm-dominated popular music and jazz-blended musical genre surrounds a broader audience. Unlike past musicals, dance and music alone are not enough. It is a solid production in the dramatic direction, for example, the characters' dialogues are very strong. It can respond to the expectations of the younger but more intellectual audience of today. Director Damien Chazell stated that his favorite films were 'The umbrellas of Cherburg' (1964, directed by Jaques Demy, actress Catherine Deneuve).

Chazell is a very young director and writer. We remember him from the film 'Whiplash', which he wrote and directed again in 2013. Cinematographers remember that movie with a drummer who struggles in the hands of a tyrannical music instructor. The director seems to have a mission to make people love jazz music, and this new film continues to progress from that track.

The main players are Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling's biography is pretty full. Emma Stone entered the cinema with her 2010 film 'Easy A'. Though the filmography is not yet rich, it seems likely to win the Oscar with the perfect game in La la land. So we are almost witnessing the birth of a real star as if it were in the same movie role as this production. J. K. Simmons, who plays the role of bullying trainer in Whiplash, is surprised by a small role (boss who does not understand the music).

It's about the impossible love of Sebastian who wants to play refined jazz but forced to play music that he dislikes in ordinary places and Mia an ambitious cafe cashier who wants to be a player. The American dream is brutal. Whether you want to pursue a career, or climb to the fame, even the bonds of love are as weak as cotton yarn. I recommend that the audience pay particular attention to the final scene. It's as if referring to the final scene of the unforgettable Casablanca movie.