Towards the end of the film’s perilous journey, George MacKay’s Lance Corporal Scofield is running along a trench in his quest to deliver his important message.
While it looks absolutely flawless in its execution, there’s actually a huge accident that made itself into one of the movie’s best moments.
There’s a moment in 1917 that almost singularly defines the challenges of director Sam Mendes and writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ real time approach to their wildly successful World War I drama.