The Remembered Film - Short Film Review ★★½

Old men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die - H. Hoover.

We join the camera traipsing through the noisy woods with some very young soldiers dressed in uniforms of soldiers of conflicts from the early 20th century to the modern day, they answer questions prompted by someone behind the camera.

There's not a whole lot to this one if I'm being honest, but the quote (above) by Hoover sums it up nicely I believe. Isabelle Tollenaere (Director/Writer) is presumably trying to argue the loss of innocence and the cocktail of depravity and madness that comes with war by getting these young men to retell accounts from conflicts around the world who could very well be the same age of those that had originally told their tales of killing others in the name of patriotism, homeland and other such nonsense.

Although I feel the message came across well, there was something extremely amateurish about the whole short film, but maybe that's me just taking the "acting" at face value rather than itself being part of some contrived point that I've missed. On the plus side I did really enjoy the camera work and other visual tid-bits, but that wasn't enough for me personally to put this on much of a pedestal.

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