"Road to Glory" for everyone

Monica 2022-04-21 09:01:27

"Dear Judges, I have been ashamed of being a human being several times, and this will be once. It is impossible for me to make a concluding statement for the defense, the court has not given me the opportunity to do so...I protest my Blocked from giving evidence, which is crucial. The prosecution did not present any witnesses, there was no written indictment at all! Last protest, there was no shorthand record of this trial. Yesterday morning's attack was not a stain on French glory, Of course it's not a disgrace to the nation, but this military court is a stain and disgrace! A mockery of human justice in the trial of these people!

Honourable judges, convicting these people will be your sin and will haunt you for the rest of your life until you die. I don't believe that humanity's most sublime, compassion for others, is completely dead here. Therefore I beseech you, have mercy on these people. "

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Extended Reading
  • Cletus 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    It's all Nima's for a star. The theme reminds me of a short film "Degenerate Art" that I watched a while ago. The patriotic horses are all pretense, all to satisfy selfish desires.

  • Angel 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Don't doubt God's will, these satanic officers were sent by God to carry out the divine will; the display of patriotism must rely on anti-human means; the soldiers who rushed to the dust and looked at death in their own homes burst into tears? You deserve it, who told you not to die on the battlefield; "We will fight to win the war, those people did not fight, so they were killed", killing soldiers leads to victory. Seen the best of Kubrick so far.

Paths of Glory quotes

  • [first lines]

    Narrator of opening sequence: War began between Germany and France on August 3rd 1914. Five weeks later the German army had smashed its way to within eighteen miles of Paris. There the battered French miraculously rallied their forces at the Marne River and in a series of unexpected counterattacks drove the Germans back. The front was stabilized then shortly afterwards developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches zigzagging their way five hundred miles from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier. By 1916, after two grisly years of trench warfare, the battle lines had changed very little. Successful attacks were measured in hundreds of yards, and paid for in lives, by hundreds of thousands.

  • [last lines]

    [Col. Dax listens to his regiment humming in the tavern]

    Sgt. Boulanger: Sir?

    Colonel Dax: Yes, sir.

    Sgt. Boulanger: We have orders to move back to the front immediately.

    Colonel Dax: Well give the men a few minutes more, Sergeant.

    Sgt. Boulanger: Yes, sir.