Another story This film was ambiguous, especially since I recently finished watching the much-loved TV series 'Turn' ('Agent'); in which the same events are presented in a completely different way. But I will try to look at ' Field of Honor' objectively.
The film is quite exciting and dynamic. It has a story, it has a kind of morality. The main character - General Arnold - is well revealed and causes sympathy much more than in the series, where he is too rude (especially with his wife Peggy) and greedy. Here he is almost a perfect husband and his corruption is not emphasized. The hero is ardent, like a seventeen-year-old boy, and makes the corresponding mistakes. It is funny that the actor at the same time looks older than the 37-year-old Arnold, and the manner of his playing seems to me somewhat old-fashioned - not in the spirit of the XVIII century, of course, but in the spirit of cinema of the mid-century of the XXth.
This is the most embarrassing thing in 'Field of Honour' - it feels like a work much older than 2003. Filming, playing, pathos in some scenes. Most claims to the performers of the roles of John Andre and Peggy. The girl is pretty, but does not even know how to throw a vase properly (at the same time, IMHO, there is no irony in the scene), and in the most dramatic moments her face does not express anything. John Andre, well, that’s a terrible thing. I’m not going to compare the character to Major Andre (played by the cutest actor JJ Field). But from the memoirs of contemporaries it is well known that this young man was VERY charming, sociable and smiling, had a huge success with women. Why in 'Field of Honor'? Is John a sullen autistic with a fixed eye? Such a gloomy caricature bombast could not please the ladies even in the pathos of the XVIII century (rather, in the romantic XIX-m - and then hardly)! Apparently, the hero was deliberately deprived of charm in order not to distract the audience from Arnold, but this is a dishonest technique. The image simply does not correspond to the story.
In general, for some strong scenes and the plot as a whole -
7 out of 10
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