All Quiet on the Western Front movie plot
2022-01-03 08:01
During the First World War, the German government used beautiful slogans to call on young and enthusiastic student volunteers to join the battlefield to defend their homeland. Paul and his classmates were instigated by the teacher’s chauvinistic ideas to devote themselves to the world with heroic ideals. During the war, these young people had idealized life and war. After training, these young "baby soldiers" were sent to participate in the war on the Western Front. However, the naive dream was shattered, and they soon found themselves involved in a protracted, cruel war. The earth became gloomy and terrifying, and many people were crying, struggling, calling, trying to be free from the threat of death, but they could only fall weakly. The protagonist Paul began to doubt the ideals of the past. The cruelty and destructiveness of war completely shattered his heroism. His heart changed and he began to doubt, hate and even hate war. Finally one day, Paul crawled out of the trenches to catch butterflies, but was shot and killed by a cold gun. However, compared with war, an individual’s life is insignificant. In the report of the Front Line Command that day, it was written: All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes
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Tjaden: They tell me there's some people in this world take a bath every week.
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Mueller: Listen, the sum of an arithmetic series is S = A + L times N over 2. Interesting, isn't it?
Katczinsky: What do you want to learn that stuff for...? One day you'll stop a bullet and it'll all be worthless.