Testament of youth is a film that conveys a portrayal of the role of women in world war one showing the hardship they endured away from battle. The weather is used to show different emotions for example when she is excepted in to Oxford it is a bright sunny day with little noise however when she arrives in France there is persistent rain at a deafening volume showing the ongoing trauma that war is and the high volume represents the intensity of the war. Also the director conveys his ideologies surrounding war through Vera. war is unnecessary, brutual and barbaric this is shown when Vera treats a German solider on his deathbed and he cries showing the Germans are people like us with emotions not the a monstrous race we must destroy,this perception is also illustrated during a heated debate weather we should retaliate against Germany and Vera believe that this ludicrous way of solving problems (war) is pointless because it ends in loved ones being lost for everyone.
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