Benediction

 Terrance Davis has written and directed this movie whose subject is Siegfried Sassoon.  Both very interesting people and worth a journey down the google rabbit hole.  After the movie I felt I should go back to my office and write a S.O.A.P. Note.

Subjective: Mr. Sassoon has decided he does not want to return to combat. He writes a letter to his superiors accusing them of fighting without having a plan.  He states it is a war of aggression for territory.

Objective: show Mr. Sassoon’s experience and motivation for such an act which could have led to a court martial and a firing squad.

Assessment: overdone.  Too many scenes of dead bodies, soldiers in hospital beds screaming in pain, voiceovers of statistics on how many have died, only scenes of bitter, nasty gay men, scenes of Mr. Sassoon fighting with his son and dissing his wife.

Plan: More scenes of Mr. Sassoon dancing the Charleston with his soon to be wife, and going to the theater with his son. And the poetry, the writing,  there’s only 2 scenes: Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Disabled’ in a voice over and Sassoon reciting a poem at a dinner party.

Meanwhile a tree grows on St Mark’s Place across the street from W.H. Auden’s home when he lived there.