#Bendicion nore lyrics movie#
#Bendicion nore lyrics archive#

are relaying, in its most fundamental form, is that every life matters. The sadness is overwhelming.You see, the title вЂњone more lightвЂќ is actually a metaphor which is synonymous with an individualвЂ™s life.В And the sentiment that Chester Bennington and co. Benediction is not an easy experience and some of the caustic, brittle dialogue scenes with SassoonвЂ™s celebrity acquaintances are grating вЂ“ yet deliberately so. Sassoon is an opaque figure in this film, but he and we are vouchsafed a vision of greatness in Wilfred OwenвЂ™s poem Disabled, in which a meaning within the agony is revealed.

#Bendicion nore lyrics movie#

This is a movie which returns Davies in many ways to his early trilogy: Children, Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration вЂ“ a world of guilt, shame and self-scrutiny in which possibilities of faith and beauty are reverently but painfully pursued. (Robert AltmanвЂ™s Gosford Park in 2001 had Jeremy Northam playing Novello as a country-house guest, singing this same song.) After the war, Sassoon exchanges embittered, pert bon mots with his various inamorati вЂ“ cruel, vain men like Stephen Tennant (Calam Lynch вЂ“ who is later to CGI-morph into Anton Lesser) and an entirely obnoxious Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine), who is shown singing his shrill comedy song And Her Mother Came, Too. Perhaps he even fails at being true to his own sexual nature.ДЄnd the war is behind everything: the war which destroyed a generation, and destroyed SassoonвЂ™s peace of mind but without conferring on him the benediction of artistic achievement.

There he meets and mentors Wilfred Owen (Matthew Tennyson), and is later haunted by OwenвЂ™s brilliance as a poet and of course by the fact that Owen died in action, an ironically dulce et decorum est deliverance вЂ“ while he must deal with his own survivorвЂ™s guilt, finally raging pointlessly at the modern world. Sickened by the senseless slaughter, he defiantly disobeys orders, but his friend Robbie Ross (Simon Russell Beale), the former intimate of Oscar Wilde, pulls some establishment strings to ensure that this decorated war hero of good family is not subject to a scandalous court-martial but sent away to a military psychiatric hospital, his outburst tactfully squared away as a nervous breakdown, and Sassoon cannot muster the determination to refuse this charitable treatment. Benediction shows the humiliation of his failure to make a proper stand against the war. It is a film which is piercingly and almost unbearably about failure: the catastrophic moral and spiritual failure of war which is aligned to SassoonвЂ™s own terrible sense of personal shortcomings. Jack Lowden plays the young Sassoon and Peter Capaldi is the older version: there is an eerily disturbing CGI scene in which the young face morphs into the hawkish, fierce Sassoon in his older years. The film shows him agonised by unhappy gay relationships with men like Stephen Tennant and Ivor Novello, an acquaintance with brittle and conceited bright young things and excruciatingly minor artistic talents, then marooned in an unhappy marriage вЂ“ which Davies portrays as more harshly unhappy than it may actually have been вЂ“ and finally glumly set on converting to Catholicism, to the derision of his grownup son.

#Bendicion nore lyrics archive#

Benediction proceeds in a series of movie tableaux with a stylised theatricality, a cinematic magic lantern show with conventionally acted scenes, archive first world war footage, grim clinical photographs, back-projections and superimpositions from which the figure of Siegfried Sassoon emerges: the hero who won the Military Cross for gallantry, but went on fiercely to oppose the war, wrote poetry about the hell of the trenches and befriended and inspired the young Wilfred Owen вЂ“ yet after the war endured a long anticlimax of obscurity, disappointment and loneliness.