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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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.