Private Hudson
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This was certainly old fashioned storytelling and okay so it was sentimental. However, I thought it was brilliant. More like the old Spielberg.
I just watched it finally on Sky. I thought it combined many elements that we all know about The Great War pretty well... the trenches, desertion, mustard gas, no man's land, and the birth of the tank.
We probably didn't quite get enough of the brutal slaughter and the futility of war, but there was the poignant scene when the cavalry charge cuts to the riderless horses leaping over the German machine gun lines.
The best compliment I can give Spielberg is that it was like a 1930s movie made today. A film John Ford would have turned out in his sleep. But that is not a criticism, it is a plus.
The heart strings were certainly pulled, but then again that is what movies should be all about.
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