After watching the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front", I have a new understanding of war. Why do we fight?

Meagan 2022-04-20 09:01:47

1. The training of soldiers by the army is unconditional obedience.

2. The German soldiers and French soldiers in the cannonball crater are inherently good, but war is a brutal killing that distorts human nature.

3. Only by seeing death as home can you live unrestrainedly.

4. "War is to attack each other, try to avoid being killed, that's all" war in the eyes of soldiers. "Millions of people have sacrificed their lives for the country, but what's the point?" People tend to romanticize and idealize war. Why don't men bring Wu Hook, collect the fifty states of Guanshan, drive a long car to break through the shortage of Helan Mountain, and die for the country? Le Shi remembers merit, but the real war is cruel.

5. I am not happy to go home. I have stayed here for a long time, it is not our place, I am not used to it.

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Extended Reading
  • Conor 2022-03-24 09:02:11

    Great! Naked description of the meaninglessness of war. For the first time, the close-quarters combat in the trenches made me feel that the war was so close that I could almost feel the enemy coming towards me offscreen. Hot-blooded young people who are looking forward to serving their country are hiding in the camp on an empty stomach, waiting for the air strikes to pass by. A group of people discussed in a playful manner why this battle was fought, and in the end they could only believe that it must be do someone's good. The war was brutal, but the home in the rear could not be returned. Only friends who have been through war together can understand each other. In the end, when the soldier who stole the food said, "The war will really end only if I die," he suddenly hit a teardrop, and the hand that could no longer reach the butterfly immediately exploded, breaking down and crying.

  • Elissa 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    "I can't tell you what you don't know." "To die for your country is not a beautiful and sweet thing. To die for your country is a dirty and painful thing." Patriotism is one of the things that destroy European civilization. A big killer. In the name of patriotism, rulers can do countless dehumanizing things. War is one of them. Sending other people's children to the battlefield, until they become cannon fodder and meat mud, few people know why they are. and fight.

All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Paul Bäumer: We live in the trenches out there. We fight. We try not to be killed, but sometimes we are. That's all.

  • [last lines]

    Second orderly: Your deal. Get his name and number?

    Medic Orderly: Yeah. Corporal Stanislaus Katczinsky, 306.