never go back

Mae 2022-04-22 07:01:32

From the beginning of the film, the boys of the first class rushed to the battlefield, and the monitor was the first to die. At that time, I said that everyone is happy when they are together, and when the people around them die one by one, the only one who is left is. Endless loneliness and sadness. In the initial group portrait, everyone has their own personality, and they all shout that there is no focus and protagonist. However, slowly, all died or were disabled, and the protagonist finally grew into a veteran. It's a pity that in the end the remaining Paul also died, in the darkness before dawn. This is a tragic expression. In fact, from the time he returned to the battlefield, he should have known that the war not only killed people, but also pushed the living into a bottomless abyss, and never returned.

When Paul's hand was lowered, a group of teenagers looking back before the expedition faintly appeared in front of the camera, those eyes were meaningful, and at the last glance, they turned their heads and died, and everything came to an abrupt end.

When I think of "Our Fathers", I can't live in the end...

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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.