Any film that has the slightest gay content is going to bring the bigots out of the wood work, whether the psycho intellectuals or the simply thugs. Hence the courage of Netflix and any actor who subsequently takes on the job has to be admired. Especially with the reach of social media these days. This is also a gritty and sometime uncomfortable watch and so it should be. Soldiers challenging the status quo, especially in English elites who conspired to start he war and then managed it so badly. The elites & sub aristocrats were also rewarded for the slaughter and agony they caused, and for accelerating the British Empires decline in the process. A parody of the last ten years on that island, which has at last finished it off. Of course they were proved right but now their words are used in far right 'nationalistic' rants and the anti-war anti-fascist meanings have been patriot washed.
Review of Benediction
