. because the opening title sequence be very bland . compare it to the shock title sequence of the 1960s bbc documentary the great war . a the film go on we ` re introduce to the character and i couldn ` t help notice that one be southern english and a couple be northern english and a couple be jock and a couple be irish while the sarge be a scouser . i ` m sorry but i be convince that british army infantry regiment of the period be compose of pal battalion and that be battalion compose entirely of men from the same home town . take for instance the 16th battalion of the royal scot which be form in one week and be call the heart battalion because it be compose mainly of supporter of heart football club . the 16th royal scot even have 16 heart player in it rank so i don ` t believe for a moment that any british army infantry platoon be a regionally mixed a the one here the more the trench go on the more i find myself question the accuracy of the movie especially it mood and it sense of time and place . a british make trench in france in 1916 . since when do the brit build trench like the one see here . it even have a concrete floor that the german would have be proud of which seem to go against i ` ve see in photographic evidence . the film also have an anachronistic cynical air and what on the eve of the somme . the british troop have witness day upon day of hellish bombardment of the german position and a lot of british soldier have begin to feel rather sorry for jerry and and no one but no one in the british line have any reason to doubt anything less than a swift and spectacular british victory . of course one day and 20 and 000 dead british soldier later change these thought and in fact some historian describe the date 1st of july 1916 the day british idealism die . one final point a at least one other commentator mention the trench contain a large amount of swear word . it have be document that one criticism by the real life survivor of band of brother be that the hbo or bbc drama contain too much swearing and that people in the 1940s use far less profane word than people use nowadays . i ` m incline to believe them and i ` m also incline to believe people in 1916 probably swore less than people in the 1940s so i doubt if the men in the trench use the f word in every sentence unfortunately who german bullet didn ` t claim on that grim day have be kill by the passing of time so the chance of someone who be there write into this site and tell u their opinion of the trench be very remote . a pity because i ` d be very interested what they think of it . a for myself i find the end moving ( how could it not be . ) but the rest be rather poor history and a rather poor film that seem to have homo erotic undertone .