A film based on the war memoirs of Vera Brittain, a pacifist, nurse and writer. When the second world war started it was her, her brother Edward and her two friends Roland and Victor. Then to feel closer to the ones she loves she decides after working so hard to get a place at Oxford getting a masters in writing she will join the war effort as a nurse. That is when life for young Vera gets a lot more complicated. The film shows her determination to put aside the typical aims if what a women should be like in the 1940s, to not be a housewife, to have a meaningful job, to support herself away from the glare of her family yet to still be in the arms of the one she loves, Roland. Yet war gets in the way of all if that. Ever though most things are changed by war her thought and expectations and even opinions of herself and life are not really changed at all. She realises that the war's grief did not just hit us it hit them, deaths hit her as well as the Germans and so with that knowledge and grief she wrote, A testament of youth and many other war books based on her memoirs and other such like. I personally could not stop crying after the first 15 minutes and it is a brilliant film for Kit Harrington, Colin Morgan, Taron Egerton and Alicia Vikander.
I rate this film a 19/20.
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