REGENERATION (1997) - Owen meets Sassoon

Wilfred Owen and S. Sassoon met at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh in 1917. They wrote some of their best war poems there. Their meeting is narrated in Pat Barker's novel Regeneraion (1991) on which this beautiful film is based.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Wilfred Owen
• Sigfried Sassoon
• War Poets
• WW1
• Regeneration

[3qjgnk]

thats not how it happened in the book, Sassoon was sitting down on the veranda of Craiglockhart (or so i remember)

[SMaryG]

You are right. In the book S.Sassoon is in his room at Craiglockhart when "a short, darkd-haired man sidled round the door, blinking in the sudden blaze of sunlight. Sassoon , sitting on the bed, looked up from the golf club he'd been cleaning." (p. 80)

[SMaryG]

Well, it depends on your tastes. I read the novel by Pat Barker, I had already studied the war poets at uni, so when I heard about the movie I tried to get the DVD and I loved what I saw. I think it is one of the best war movie I've ever seen.

[SMaryG]

Maybe because he was extremely sensitive, creative and intelligent?

[nice0vibe]

Why is Owen so adorable...WHY.

[horselover100]

LOVE OWEN!

[misshelenhardy]

@bwoibetterrun lollllll

[misshelenhardy]

LOL at owen falling down the hill! he's soooo cute :3 xxx

[xvoissurtoncheminx]

Trying to work out if Owen's fall down the grassy hill was intentional...

[bwoibetterrun]

reading the book it's obvious these two were fudge packers!

[HerrMikael]

This movie is a true gem

[ZolotayaKoshka]

@bluespaceoddity Thank you for the interesting reference.

"like broken bird-cages", very apt anti-image of the poor freed and fragile souls.

[bluespaceoddity]

"My dear Leslie,

At last I have an event worth a letter. I have beknown myself to Siegfried Sassoon. Went to him last night (my second call). The first visit was one morning last week. The sun blazed into his room making his purple dressing suit of a brilliance — almost matching my sonnet! ..."

Wilfred Owen, Letter to Leslie Gunston. 22 August 1917, Craiglockhart

(The First World War Digital Poetry Archive)

[bluespaceoddity]

"My own dear Mother,

I have been waiting for the address. The most momentous news I have for you is my meeting with Sassoon. He was struggling to read a letter from H.G. Wells when I went in. ..."

Wilfred Owen. Letter to Susan Owen 22 August 1917, Craiglockhart.

(The First World War Digital Poetry Archive)

[Abby8318]

The part where Owen trips :') hill-arious

[bluespaceoddity]

Meanwhile, so many bullets cracked with whip-like loudness just over our heads that it seemed that were being actually aimed at, though it was night and the enemy at half a mile's distance. We went on, through straggling wire and wet grass, and then by a wooden track until the lee of Cover Trench rose in view; we entered it by an opening known in that time and district as a "rally port" a term readily connecting us wit Marlborough's wars."