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"All Quiet on the Western Front"
Dasia 2022-04-22 07:01:32
After watching "All Quiet on the Western Front": My favorite of the three I've watched so far. Paul and his friends are encouraged by their teachers to join the army, only to find that the war is not what they imagined. They have to worry about death all the time, how can they think about the responsibility of protecting the family and the country, and they only hope that they can come back alive on the front line and have a bad meal. Paul watched his friends die one by one on the battlefield and in the ambulance station, but there was nothing he could do. Like Kat said, "sometimes i'm gonna take one of you volunteers apart and find out what makes you leave school and join the army ." Can it be the fault of this group of kids? They were just carried away by heroism. Could it be the teacher's fault? No, because there are so many people like the teacher who have never participated in the war or went to the front line to experience it, so it is a matter of course that the soldiers eat the best food, so they can talk about soldiers on paper and talk nonsense, so they can inspire 16,7 The year-old went to the battlefield to die in the name of defending his family and the country... Paul, who had been struggling on the battlefield for three years, returned home and found that everything had changed. Mom still treats him as a child, but he knows not. He was angry when he heard that the teacher encouraged the children irresponsibly again. He wanted to tell these hot-headed children the cruelty of the war, but was accused of being a "coward"! In the end, it was still back to 2 even. I have to say that I really like the role of kat. He is uninhibited and optimistic, and he is not forgiving, but he spares no effort to protect this group of cubs, especially Paul. It's no wonder that in the end Paul would say "he's the only one left". The relationship between these two people is touching, and therefore, watching the last part of Paul carrying Kat back is particularly sad. War is ruthless...
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Elaina 2022-03-27 09:01:09
I heard you in here reciting that same old stuff, making more iron men, more young heroes. You still think it's beautiful and sweet to die for your country, don't you? We used to think you knew. The first bombardment taught us better. It's dirty and painful to die for your country. When it comes to dying for your country, it's better not to die at all.
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Zella 2022-03-26 09:01:07
This is the best war movie I've ever seen, what can I say? It's a pity that the second half is a bit boring, but the scene at the end is too classic
All Quiet on the Western Front quotes
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Professor Kantorek: Paul! How are you, Paul?
Paul Bäumer: [somber] Glad to see you, Professor.
Professor Kantorek: You've come at the right moment, Baumer! Just at the right moment!
[to students]
Professor Kantorek: And as if to prove all I have said, here is one of the first to go! A lad who sat before me on these very benches, who gave up all to serve in the first year of the war. One of the iron youth who have made Germany invincible in the field! Look at him. Sturdy and bronze and clear-eyed! The kind of soldier every one of you should envy! Paul, lad, you must speak to them. You must tell them what it means to serve your fatherland.
Paul Bäumer: No no, I can't tell them anything.
Paul Bäumer: You must, Paul. Just a word. Just tell them how much they're needed out there. Tell them why you went, and what it meant to you.
Paul Bäumer: I can't say anything.
Professor Kantorek: If you remember some deed of heroism, some touch of humility, tell about it.
[encouraging murmurs from the students]
Paul Bäumer: I can't tell you anything you don't know. We live in the trenches out there, we fight, we try not to be killed; and sometimes we are. That's all.
[students fidget, disappointed]
Professor Kantorek: No, no Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [angry] I've been there! I know what it's like!
Professor Kantorek: That's not what one dwells on, Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [bitterly] I heard you in here, reciting that same old stuff. Making more iron men, more young heroes. You still think it's beautiful and sweet to die for your country, don't you?
[Kantorek nods firmly]
Paul Bäumer: We used to think you knew. The first bombardment taught us better. It's dirty and painful to die for your country. When it comes to dying for your country it's better not to die at all! There are millions out there dying for their countries, and what good is it?
[muttering from students]
Professor Kantorek: [shocked] Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [angry] You asked me to tell them how much they're needed out there.
[to students]
Paul Bäumer: He tells you, "Go out and die!" Oh, but if you'll pardon me, it's easier to *say* go out and die than it is to do it!
Student: Coward!
Paul Bäumer: And it's easier to say it, than to watch it happen!
students: Coward! You're a coward! Coward!
Professor Kantorek: No! No, boys, boys! I'm sorry, Baumer, but I must say...
Paul Bäumer: We've no use talking like this. You won't know what I mean. Only, it's been a long while since we enlisted out of this classroom. So long, I thought maybe the whole world had learned by this time. Only now they're sending babies, and they won't last a week! I shouldn't have come on leave. Up at the front you're alive or you're dead and that's all. You can't fool anybody about that very long. And up there we know we're lost and done for whether we're dead or alive. Three years we've had of it, four years! And every day a year, and every night a century! And our bodies are earth, and our thoughts are clay, and we sleep and eat with death! And we're done for because you *can't* live that way and keep anything inside you! I shouldn't have come on leave. I'll go back tomorrow. I've got four days more, but I can't stand it here! I'll go back tomorrow! I'm sorry.
[exit]
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Hair-peak soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich.
[murmurs of agreement]
Albert Kropp: I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.