In 'Journey's End,' soldiers reminisce and wait to die in the muddy trenches of World War I
by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
Mar 21, 2018
4 minutes
Years ago, in a quiet German forest, a gravedigger for fallen soldiers stilled his spade and said: "In these bones, you see what war is like. I know war now. I'll tell you what it is. War is young men killing other young men they do not know on the orders of old men who know one another too well."
That sentiment lingers through "Journey's End," a nuanced and forbidding British film set on the front lines of World War I, which killed around 17 million people, many of them young soldiers marched into hopeless battles by misguided generals. The story, adapted from a 1928 play by R.C. Sherriff,
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