Benediction (2021) on Netflix
British poet Siegfried Sassoon returns from the First World War decorated for bravery but critical of the conflict, and is sent to a psychiatric facility. He pursues affairs with several men.
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- IMDb6.6/104,621 votes
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Plot summary
Siegfried Sassoon is an English poet, writer and soldier who serves in the First World War and becomes known as a war poet. He survives the horrors of the fighting and is decorated for his bravery, but once he returns from service he speaks out against the government's decision to continue the war. His poetry warns against the horrors of the war he fought in, and his anti-war position brings him to a psychiatric facility. Aristocrats admire him, and so do figures from London's literary and stage circles. During the 1920s he takes several male lovers as he struggles to accept his homosexuality.
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In response to the film's portrayal of Sassoon's conversion to Catholicism, the poet's niece, a nun, made a public statement that her uncle had been at peace and joyful in his later years, and that the redemption he sought was found when he came home to Christ.- The film follows the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a British poet and decorated World War I combat veteran who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance.
