I felt that Blake's death was more impactful and fucked up than many other death scenes I've seen in a lot of war movies. It just...happens, a kind of usually inconsequential wound we've seen character take in dozens of movies, and then the suffering and struggling to survive goes on for what felt like many long minutes. Him suddenly being so pale was really shocking. It happens so fast
I couldn't believe he actually died too. That was a legitimately surprising turn
Yeah, the way you don't even see it happen and just hear Blake's screams while Schofield is filling up the helmet with water was bone-chilling. Then Blake's look of pure shock and disbelief that he'd been stabbed was really well done by Dean-Charles Chapman.
What I really love about this movie, and what I think the way it's shot to appear as one take adds to it, is how you're there with Schofield at all times. Blake dies and then there are no cuts that dampen the impact of the moment. You see Schofield's grief and heartbreak as the other squadron rolls up and as he's forced to sit on the back of the truck with the other soldiers who are joking around him. You watch his range of emotions the whole time and it really made the emotion of the movie feel more pronounced. Honestly the more I think about this movie since seeing on Saturday, the more I love it. It's really stuck with me.
What I really love about this movie, and what I think the way it's shot to appear as one take adds to it, is how you're there with Schofield at all times. Blake dies and then there are no cuts that dampen the impact of the moment. You see Schofield's grief and heartbreak as the other squadron rolls up and as he's forced to sit on the back of the truck with the other soldiers who are joking around him. You watch his range of emotions the whole time and it really made the emotion of the movie feel more pronounced. Honestly the more I think about this movie since seeing on Saturday, the more I love it. It's really stuck with me.