These young people are full of enthusiasm for the country and have simple and beautiful fantasies about war. They don't know why they went to war, but they are very proud to be able to contribute to their country, which is the great patriotism.
They trek from England to the French battlefield, marching for dozens of miles, they don't feel tired, they just have that kind of excitement full of blood, and even worry that the war will be over before they get there.
War is cruel. Your comrade-in-arms who was standing next to you one second may be shattered the next. l
The captured German soldiers, they even breathed a sigh of relief that they were captured, they were finally freed. The soldiers of the two countries are in harmony, they respect and admire each other, and they understand the difficulty of war. There is a sentence in the film "no British soldier hated the German soldier to the core", they just received instructions to fight, that's all. They don't care about who wins and who loses, they just want this to end as soon as possible.
At the moment when the war was declared over, there was no cheer or laughter, and the surroundings were dead silent. This is different from the war of aggression. This war was only caused by capitalist countries for hegemony, not a necessary counterattack. These soldiers did not understand why. The war begins, the war ends, that's all.
The chilling thing is that people don't understand the cruelty of war, they don't understand the veterans after the victory, they only know that they have a lot of lice, they only know that they are fighting, and the civilians don't understand them at all. Unemployment is a great irony.
And those beautiful teenage souls who died in war, they don't grow old, they stay forever.
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