I watched this film last night,i thought it should have been on earlier,ma-by 9 o clock instead of 11.15pm as it was a lot better than films they usually show at that time on a week day.It was a very moving film with some brilliant acting,and the story is actually based on fact,as Sigfried sassoon did meet Wilfred Owen in a hospital for shell shocked officers.The rest of the film is fiction.The film makes a point in saying that only the officers got this privilege of being aloud rest when they suffered battle fatigue,the lesser ranks had to carry on until close insanity before they were discharged as sick. My own grandfather was one of these. He carried on having fits into the 1930s which led to his death from a bad fall in 1935 aged only 36,these were the other casualties of ww1. The British army did not want to recognise shell-shock and was totally unprepared for it.This film portrayed a very important part of history which unfortunately is almost forgotten,i found the film to be a very moving tribute to all those who fought and died in it.
Review of Behind the Lines
