Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are ...
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Stars:
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Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important WW1 poets.Written by
Daniel Roy <elijah@colba.net>
The film used a lot of present and former Territorial Army soldiers as extras for larger scenes. This includes soldiers from 52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, located in Hotspur street, Glasgow. See more »
Goofs
Sassoon threw his MC ribbon away, not the medal. The medal is in The Royal Welsh Fusiliers Regimental. See more »
This was an excellent movie. Amazing photography and casting and an
intelligent scenario which passes messages about how horrific war is
to the audience in the mildest yet touching way I've seen.
The story involves a hospital in Scotland where officers are sent when
they suffer a breakdown, a common phenomenon in the first and second
world wars. In there, a doctor (played by Jonathan Pryce) attempts to
treat his patients in a more humane way than the one other doctors of
the time choose. Through the stories of characters in the hospital --
including Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, two poets who happen to
meet and become friends in the hospital -- the life of the British
soldiers in the first World War, as well as several political messages
about that affecting era for humanity are successfully transmitted to
the audience, without blood, without effects or huge battle scenes in
a way that touches and indicates its significance more than any other
film I've seen about the subject.
The performances are excellent, with Johny Lee Miller -- who apart
from this movie has not shown any signs of serious acting that I've
seen -- delivering a very good performance of a shocked and ambitious
officer and Jonathan Pryce metaphorically accepting the ideas of
Sassoon -- who opposes to the war after a point where he realises its
futility and the lack of values in the politicians driving it -- can
be though as the link between the soldiers and humanity itself.
It is definitely a movie I would recommend! Excellent.