Even though many people seem to hate this movie, I can't join them in their opinion. I prefer the dust and dirt from the desert and the battles in which good manors only come later and the true human nature gets the upper hand. I'm not saying that the part of the movie showing England isn't any good, but I'm not too much a fan of those Victorian costumes and habits.
Everything was portrayed in a very nice way, especially when they are in Sudan. But what I liked even more than the story was the photography. The story certainly is interesting and offers an interesting approach to a story that has been told many times before. These feathers symbolize how they feel about him, they see him as a coward, but what they don't know is that he plans to go to Sudan anyway, undercover, so he can save his friends from a certain death and redeem his honor.
He has to resign his post, right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels, and to make things even worse for him, he receives four white feathers from his friends and his fiancée. When a British officer is about to be sent to Sudan to fight a war he doesn't approve of, he is seen as a coward. As I already said, this movie has been set at the end of the 19th century, in 1898 to be more precise. This one has been set at the end of the 19th century, a time period that comes close to the one that I like most in the movies (1914-1950), but even movies set in medieval, Greek and Roman times I can enjoy. I've always been a fan of historically inspired epic movies and although I'm not a fan of costume drama's, I don't really care about the time period these movies are set in.
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