The Truly Moving

There’s something cathartic about watching a monumentally moving emotional or poignant film. If you notice, after watching them and reacting to them, you feel relieved (in a good way), it is as if you your feelings that have pent up have got their release. This was one of the reasons why Aristotle defined tragedy in the following manner. “A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions.” In a world and at a time where so much tragedy surrounds us and we’re constantly told to be strong and hold it in, there’s often nothing better than settling in front of an old fashioned weepie and just letting it all go…

Regeneration

Lt. Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby), a poet and war veteran, is facing court-martial for publicly decrying British conduct in World War I. His poet friend Robert Graves (Dougray Scott) pulls strings to get Sassoon placed in a psychiatric war hospital in Scotland, where soldiers are to be swiftly rehabilitated and sent back into battle. There, Sassoon meets a sympathetic doctor (Jonathan Pryce) and also Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce), whom he encourages to pursue poetry as a form of wartime therapy.

Watch Now on:

Keep in touch

Click below or contact us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or call us on 0207 887 2211
Designed with love by Software Major