If you watch war movies, start with this one

Dock 2022-03-21 09:02:09

If I were to make a list of war movies, it would end with Apocalypse Now and start with a silent war on the Western Front. Apocalypse Now is the pinnacle of war film narrative skills, philosophical depth, pathological dismantling, artistic aesthetics, and technical scheduling. So far, there is no mountain in the world. While All Quiet on the Western Front was filmed in the 1930s, it exhausted the motifs and forms of anti-war films as soon as it was released, leaving Spielberg to work on the story and forcing Nolan into the corner of technology.

The principal's first lecture was pulled back to the classroom by the noisy queue marching outside the window. The principal's chauvinistic arrogance enshrouded the youth's beautiful fantasies about battle, honor, fashion, and love, as well as the cowardice and hesitation to hide and dodge. The last strong wind As usual, the teenagers filed out and poured into the ranks of the army. One took down, the clouds flowed, the emotions fluctuated several times, and finally it was as empty as a classroom.

The big panorama of the train station has an epic air. The busy troop carrier in the vicinity and the chaotic queue in the distance interweave a magnificent scene. Viewing from the dark walls of the station, it is like sitting in a theater of all beings, watching how falsehood and suffering are chasing and chasing human beings, refusing to let go.

Paul returned to his hometown for vacation. In addition to the tears of his mother and the warmth of his sister, he was greeted by the constant political advocacy of the principal and the frenzy of his father's generation to invade Paris at any cost. Paul was no longer a flesh-and-blood son, a student, but an instrument of war that ensured victory and honor.

Home is full of tears, fanaticism, hypocrisy and lies, and the battlefield is cruel but honest and can understand each other. Paul decided to return to the battlefield, but just as he fell into the arms of fraternity, he ushered in the death of the veteran. At this point, all the faith, hope, and love that supported mankind through suffering had collapsed in Paul’s heart and was in ruins.

Has the human world gotten better? Hard to say. But human life and social order are as fragile and precious as thousands of years.

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Extended Reading
  • Bill 2022-01-03 08:01:12

    Reading Remark and watching Hollywood are two feelings.

  • Lola 2022-01-03 08:01:12

    The real value is that such a movie appeared in that era.

All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Ginger - the Cook: [looking at soldiers lined up to eat] What do you want?

    Katczinsky: Beans, you homely-looking son of a frog's leg! What do you think I want?

    Ginger - the Cook: [the men shout that they're hungry] Shut up! I'll feed you when you're all here.

    Tjaden: We're all here now!

    Ginger - the Cook: Only half the company's here. Get the rest! Wake 'em up!

    Katczinsky: [the men laugh] I wish I could wake 'em up. There's 80 of us left. The rest is in dressin' stations or pushin' up daisies!

    Ginger - the Cook: [shocked] 80? And I cooked for 150!

    Westhus: All right, we'll have enough for once. Come on, dish out!

    Tjaden: You mean you've cooked beans for 150?

    [the cook nods]

    Tjaden: And you've got bread for 150 and sausage for 150 and tobacco for 150?

    Ginger - the Cook: Everything. It's all wrong. I should have been notified!

    Katczinsky: What a feast! Everyone gets two issues!

    [the waiting men shout]

    Katczinsky: [trying to keep order in the ranks] Get back in line! Get back in line!

    Ginger - the Cook: Oh, no, that woun't do. I can't give 80 men what's meant for 150.

    Katczinsky: [he starts to punch the cook but thinks better of it and tries to be persuasive] Listen, you drew rations for the Second Company, didn't yuh?

    Ginger - the Cook: Yes.

    Katczinsky: All right, we're the Second Company!

    [the men shout]

    Ginger - the Cook: I got my orders.

    Albert Kropp: [agreeing with Kat] That's right.

    Paul Bäumer: We're the Second Company and if only half of us get back, that's our good luck. Come on, dish it out!

    Ginger - the Cook: [the men shout] No!

    Katczinsky: [grabbing the cook by the throat] You're the yellowest baboon that ever drew a cook wagon, and you're scared, and it shows! All we want to hear out of you is one more little yip, and we'll cut yuh up and eat you raw! Why, you keep your kitchen so far back of the lines, we never get anything to eat until it's cold and we're asleep. Now, you low doen rat, get out, or we wreck the joint, so help me!

    [the men shout]

    Katczinsky: Come on, give us some food!

  • Tjaden: There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust.