I can never resist a romantic movie whose setting is wartime. This type of story is strangely popular as if you succeed in combing two of our gravest topics, love and life as long as you shoot a movie that tells a love story during the war. Normally, this kind of movie is attractive and Birdsong belongs to this category.
Characters' love in this kind of movie is usually not so smooth and interrupted by many incidents. Then the war erupts. Lovers departed. These incidents grew to be life-long regrets. That's the schema of love in a war. Aware of the routine, I still can't help crying for this movie.
Strictly speaking, Birdsong is only a mini-series rather than a movie.
There is one upset about the rationality of the excuse Isabelle employs to leave Stephen. Why can't she inform him of her pregnancy first? Why must she leave without a word? Ow!
Watching it is a multi-sense experience. Apart from the picture, the sound of tweets and warbles are elegant and beautiful and help to forward the plot and build the atmosphere. What's more, every time I saw the main characters making out, I got even more nervous than them(I don't know why!!!). So it's mentally exhiliarating stimulating as well.
Review of Birdsong
