Finding 1917 more haunting in retrospect than I did as I was watching it.
It is truly beautiful. The scenes at night are a masterpiece of composition. The pacing - between action and quiet, beauty and horror - is the work of someone with a properly intuitive sense of how cinema operates.
But the thing that keeps gnawing away is the youth in the face of the two main characters. That you can see the child in them, even though outwardly they behave like grown men.
You see a lot of war-is-hell movies. But that had an impact on me, beyond what I knew to be true, to properly feeling the horror of it. Incredible piece of work.
