Insiders don't know, outsiders don't know

Dwight 2022-03-22 09:02:01

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The film tells the story of the German army during World War I. Under the teacher's instigation, all the boys in a class turned to the army, the classroom was thrown into a mess, and everyone fantasized about fame and honor. But on the battlefield, I found out that it was really cruel. Poul’s classmates and comrades in arms fell one by one, and he slowly began to hate war, but when he returned to his hometown, the teacher was still encouraging batch after batch of young people to go to the battlefield. It was just dust in history. Eventually Poul got up in the trenches to catch butterflies, but was also killed by snipers.

experience

Overall there is no empathy for the war, probably because of the Germans. But I can deeply appreciate the cruelty of war, and black and white films can also see the blood of war, which is very depressing after watching it. The most interesting part is the part where everyone talks about how the world war started after the first war. This is not a war between you and me, or even the Kaiser, nor is it a conflict between mountains and plains, so why did this war happen? Woolen cloth? - Insiders don't know, outsiders don't know either.

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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.

  • 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.