This is a film in which we see the war through the eyes of Vera Brittain - played beautifully (perhaps almost too beautifully) by Alicia Vikander. The original book is autobiographical based largely on real events. We first meet Vera as a cosseted and headstrong young girl whose main longing is for a chance to study at Oxford, but as the film progresses the war begins and forces itself into everyone's lives. With her friends joining up, Vera feels it her duty to serve as a nurse - firstly in England and later close enough to the front line to hear the sound of the guns and trudge through the all pervasive mud.The horrors of treating dreadful wounds with woefully inadequate resources are shown in sufficient - but not obsessive - detail. There is a lot of blood. Vera becomes hardened by her experiences and learns the strength of will it takes to survive. And it is this inner strength that carries her, and us as the audience, on through all the horrors that war threw her way. Shortcomings of the production are generally trivial, to my mind the most significant being the somewhat patchy portrayal of regional accents. On the other hand a great strength is a feeling of authenticity for some of the lines. You feel we might well be hearing the exact words that were used as real people reacted to their torment a hundred years ago. And understanding some of the thoughts and feelings that were left unexpressed.There's poetry too. It's a massive challenge to present poetry with the right tone in this kind movie, and I felt they achieved it remarkably well.I now definitely feel I should read the book. So it must be a good film.

Alicia Vikander is an embodiment of heavenly beauty, but that's exactly the problem at the bottom of the movie industry. Good looks of the protagonists at all cost and almost all the time detract from even good productions and make them less credible as works of art. A quick glance at the photos of the real people portrayed in most bio-pics or other film genres reveals that many of them were quite average-looking. I can excuse this trend in movies made strictly for escapist entertainment, but those that have any artistic or historical verisimilitude intentions fall down on their face by doing this.

it's talking about love story that happened en world war tow talking about smart girl wanted to go to oxford then the war begin and her boyfriend went to the front lines (in franc) they wear talking by messages then he's family got news of he's death Vera decided to be a nurse her brother went to franc in the front lines and she asked to go to franc after while some solder told her about some one knew her (her brother) but he's with the dead and she found hem alive painful end but,the story was awesome. i have opinion about viewer :its not full of live some viewer was so cold some close people disappear in the end of the move. it was taken from real story.

Vera Brittain made me think about time, immortality, about unspeakable suffering which brings war to all who participate in it. The beauty of nature, the joy of life, aspirations, plans - everything is so fragile, so elusive. It is so easy to destroy, to shatter all the dreams, it is so easy to bring nothingness, emptiness, nonentity.Vera helped me to notice the word "Memory" in my life. Do I want to be remembered? How I want to be remembered? How I will remember those I love, respect, admire?I've bought her autobiography after watching this movie.Thank you Alicia for the great performance!