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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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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes
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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.
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Albert Kropp: Ah, the French certainly deserve to be punished for starting this war.
Detering: Everybody says it's somebody else.
Tjaden: Well. how do they start a war?
Albert Kropp: Well, one country offends another.
Tjaden: How could one country offend another?
Tjaden: You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?
[Everyone laughs]
Albert Kropp: Well, stupid, one people offends another.
Tjaden: Oh, well, if that's it, I shouldn't be here at all. I don't feel offended.
Katczinsky: It don't apply to tramps like you.
Tjaden: Good. Then I could be goin' home right away.
Paul Bäumer: Ah, you just try it.
Katczinsky: Yeah. You wanna get shot?
Tjaden: The kaiser and me...
[the others laugh]
Tjaden: Me and the kaiser felt just alike about this war. We didn't either of us want any war, so I'm going home. He's there already.
Hair-peak soldier: Somebody must have wanted it. Maybe it was the English. No, I don't want to shoot any Englishman. I never saw one 'til I came up here. And I suppose most of them never saw a German 'til *they* came up here. No, I'm sure *they* weren't asked about it.
Paul Bäumer: No.
Detering: Well, it must be doing somebody some good.
Detering: Not me and the kaiser.
Hair-peak soldier: I think maybe the kaiser wanted a war.
Tjaden: You leave us out of this!
Katczinsky: I don't see that. The kaiser's *got* everything he needs.
Hair-peak soldier: Well, he never had a war before. Every full-grown emperor needs one war to make him famous. Why, that's history.
Paul Bäumer: Yeah, generals, too. They need war.