How To Write A Brief Summary Of The Trench Movie

The movie I picked was The Trench written and directed by William Boyd. It was released in the United States November 22, 2000, and starred Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The movie starts off in the summer of 1916 and shows the British Army getting ready for the Somme Offensive. It opens up with some information on the setting, “while hundreds of thousands of soldiers massed in the rear, a small force was left to hold the trenches” (The Trench). The movie gives us an insight of what life was like in the trenches, and the experiences the soldiers have over the two days before the start of the offensive. Their time is filled with sentry watch, drills, and cleaning the trenches anything to keep away the boredom of waiting for an attack from the Germans. The recruits are young boys who are very naive and are commanded by Second Lieutenant Harte. Because of their naivety, the platoon takes many causalities like when Billy’s brother looks through a peephole over a dare and gets shot in the cheek, after being told by the lieutenant not to. The men were supposed to go over the trenches as a third wave to attack the Germans. However, the first two waves of men got lost and now they were instructed to be the first wave. They realize that the Germans after many nights of bombing are still …show more content…
Germany supported Austria against Serbia, and Britain joined France and Russia. After many months of fighting, both sides of the war had started making lines of fortification or trenches like shown in the movie. The lines didn’t change much over the years that the war lasted. The first day of the Battle of Somme was on “July 1st, 1916 and 60,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in the first two hours of the attack” and is also said to be the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army (The