which has been painstakingly restored, colourised and converted into 3—d by jackson's team at wingnut filmsm the soldiers? perspective, in their own words. their stories are told in an imaginative and startling way. the film flips from the patriotic fervour of vetera ns account of their enlistment to war to the brutal and shocking realities of day—to—day life and death in the trenches. some of these stories are told in a surprisingly matter—of—fact way. you didn't polish any buttons. you wore any uniform bits that you liked, and nobody worried. all that they were concerned with was that you were fit to fight. peterjackson and his team trawled through the 600 hours of audio and 100 hours of film footage provided by the imperial war museum's archive in order to construct the film. vfx wizardry smooths the movement of the images, removing any jerky pictures. it's a very, very unusual method of storytelling. that struck me straightaway. it feels different to almost any war documentary i've seen in the past. the brief that they gave me was — on the surface, it was very simple and very wide open.