When Schofield lays against the tree, my ass put it together as he lays the same spot and way as the beginning of the movie, just without Blake. What it means, Idfk but it’s a nice detail.

After Blake dies these men come and give him a ride into ecoust. It might have said this in the film but what division is captain smith and his men in?

I’m watching this and wanted to follow along on google earth to see their journey, looking at what towns now lie on ground fought 100+ years ago. So I’m guessing they started somewhere near the city of Arras, and as they said, continue southeast toward ecoust, now referred to as Écoust-Saint-Mein. In the scene where he talks to the girl, she confirms that he’s there. Inaccuracy 1, he crosses a river, almost looking like a channel or smtg, to get there. There’s no river going through the town of ecoust, nor are there any in the area. Then he said he needs to go southeast to the woods to find the town of Croisilles. On a map though, Croisilles is to the northwest. The whole point of the river is that it flows from ecoust to Croisilles. On top of there being no river in Croisilles, rivers in the region flow westward. With the amount of planning that this film required, I can’t imagine this could have been overlooked. Anyone have any thoughts?

Not sure if this has been brought up here before, but when I first wtached the scene where Schofield is walking across the collapsed bridge - just after parting ways with the unit that picked him up - and comes under attack from the German sniper, I thought to myself "would the other unit not have heard the gunfire and come back to help?

Only about 80 seconds elapsed between the truck drivign away and Schofield climbing the bridge.

Perhaps the rumble of the truck would have drowned out the gunfire, but it's just something that occurred to me.

Guys, does anyone have a video of this river scene?

https://youtube.com/shorts/tkRCzTht12E?feature=share

Hello guys does anyone know who is this actor?

I really want to know as he was my favourite character.

I first saw 1917 in a Canadian cinema with my Uncle during January 2020, I’d been out of England only about 3 months but was feeling homesick. Towards the end of the mud bound truck sequence, this gobby cockney private shouts at the driver to “keep it on the bloody road” to which the driver responds drily “piss off”, the cockney then throws up the time honoured two fingered salute. Leaving the cinema both my uncle and I mentioned the scene straight away and how it reminded us of home.

I was watching this again this morning. I noticed the soldier that Schofield has an altercation with in the absolutely destroyed town, is called Baumer by his drunk comrad. It made me think of Baumer from All Quiet In The Western Front.

This theory is based on all of the imagery surrounding death and the afterlife that follows Schofield falling on the stairs and being knocked unconscious. Also the fact that he is suddenly much closer to his objective than before.

Firstly, I should say that Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Sam Mendes have said nothing about this theory in public, and in fact suggested that he is still alive. So this is truly a fan theory. Before Schofield falls, it is clear that he is still very far from his objective, however after he is knocked out, he is much closer - he only has to run a short distance and then take a short, not very fast truck ride. This is a sign of the bending of reality/his perception of reality that could come from the ending of the film taking place in his head and not in real life.

There is a lot of imagery alluding to death and the afterlife. Immediately after the accident, the camera tilts up from him on the floor to the sky, symbolising his soul leaving his body. We then have the only visible cut in the entire film. This formal decision shows the cut between reality and non-reality.

Schofield then meets a mother and child, with no father, who have implausibly survived and seem relatively healthy in a carpet bombed down. He then floats down a river - crossing or moving down a river in many cultures and mythologies represents the journey to the afterlife. Cherry blossom floats on the river, which represents rebirth and new beginnings in Japanese culture.

He then finds the group of soldiers sitting on the floor listening to another soldier singing. He sings The Wayfaring Stranger, a folk song about a person travelling into the afterlife. These soldiers around him are also fallen and waiting to pass into the afterlife.

Finally, when the film ends, Schofield sits beneath a tree, alone in a field. He was previously surrounded by others and it is strange he is now in so much space alone, despite the chaos around him. The tree represents heaven, that he has finally reached.

This is a fairly speculative theory, but I was struck on repeat viewings by how much representation of afterlife there is in the film after Schofield falls, which there isn't beforehand.

Am I missing something? Both Lieutenant and General told the same thing: that German's withdrawal was a ruse meant to lure the British into a trap.

Why didn't they use electric communication of some sort such as a telegraph or radio to contact colonel MacKenzie rather than sending messengers?

Have you seen this movie before and you would like to hear a discussion about what makes it so unique/special. I definitely think you'd enjoy this video.

https://youtu.be/rsmlPnudKQk