Regeneration (1997)
Genre: War / Drama
Duration: 114 minuten
Alternative title: Behind the Lines
Country:
United Kingdom / Canada
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby and Jonny Lee Miller
IMDb score:
7,0 (2.601)
Releasedate: 27 August 1997
Regeneration plot
The first World War. Two soldiers who fought in the war are sent to an asylum because of emotional problems. These two soldiers turn out to be the two most important poets of England and write poem after poem to express their emotion. A key worker at the asylum tries to help the two return to normal functioning.
Actors and actresses
Capt. William Rivers
2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
2nd Lt. Billy Prior
2nd Lt. Wilfred Owen
Sarah Lumb
Capt. Robert Graves
Maj. Bryce
Dr. Yealland
Dr. Brock
Capt. Campbell
Reviews & comments
RuudC
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- 4636 messages
- 2529 votes
It actually lasts 91 minutes instead of 105. Still, no reason to feel cheated. Most of this movie is just boring. Hardly any war scenes are shown, but the viewer is haphazardly placed in an asylum full of traumas. Nowhere in the first hour do I have the idea of watching a story. They are loose accumulations of situations. I've read enough about this subject to know that you can make beautiful and especially impressive dramas about it, but it rarely works here. In the end, there is a scene that really impresses and that is the one in which torture devices are used to restore someone's ability to speak. The direction is weak, but also could have been much more.
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Robi
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- 2538 messages
- 2531 votes
Film about a psychiatric institution where soldiers end up who have suffered a serious trauma in the First World War. At first it seemed to be a boring and clinical film. But the story and the personalities build up very cleverly and subtly, slowly exposing the person behind the facade. Still quite a good film, although I'm not sure why I don't want to give it more than three stars. He deserves more. The First World War was, in my opinion, the worst war of all the wars that have been. There you just had to keep going until you were dead. Or, as told in the movie; everyone who survives the war feels guilty about it. If you go to Verdun or Ypres and you immerse yourself in what happened there. That made a big impression on me. And a film like this clearly also has a lot more impact on me than a film like Platoon (Vietnam War), which I saw just yesterday. That's stupid action. This is more deeper psychology. Although both wars were equally pointless.
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Lovelyboy
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- 3954 messages
- 2956 votes
And the next step also brings the First World War, and now again the English side and not so much the front but the rearguard. The model for this film was the book No man's land by Pat Barker from her trilogy Weg Der Geesten, a trilogy that I read several times but also disappointed me just as often as a whole, fortunately the first part was always the best, which was decisive for this film to try.
Protagonist Sassoon is admitted as a real Catch-22 for observation in an institution/convalescent home for his position against the decision-making regarding the war. How sick can you be you would say and that Sassoon is not much wrong compared to some other patients is already quite clear and the whole appears to be more of a kind of power game around fear that such a protest can cause mutiny.
As idyllic as the Scottish estate where the men are taken care of, the patients are so ailing, and this is regularly accompanied by poignant and disturbing moments such as Prior and his nightmares or the naked man in the woods. It is a drop in the ocean about the large number of people who were severely traumatized, but it is no less about the horrors of the Somme and the First World War. Just as shocking are some treatment methods, which also have some extremely crazy moments.
Together with a decent cast in the form of Pryce, Miller, Scott, the fairly unknown Wilby and McKidd and McAvoy in small roles, McAvoy not even consciously seen, Behind The Lines turns out to be a more than decent film that looked good on the cross trainer and during meals.
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