This is a movie I like very much, a large part of it is because of my military career, and the other part is because of the pair of right hands and unreachable butterflies that go into film history.
War is a word that makes people yearn and fear. Every soldier has longed to make contributions to the battlefield, but he is afraid of the sobbing parents, wives and children in front of the tombstone. I have also fantasized about killing the enemy on the battlefield and returning home in honor, just like those young faces who abandoned school and joined the army. They are lucky because they have seen the real appearance of war, and they are also unfortunate, because the fire of war ruthlessly devoured them. Life and the meaning of war are all at a loss for them.
There are too many anti-war movies in this world, which repeatedly tell us an ancient truth: war is the devil, but our earth still lives in the rumbling sound of guns, war will never be absent from every major change, nor We will have mercy on any living being. We make anti-war movies, watch anti-war works, recreate history, and learn lessons. As the famous Hollywood film critic Sean Thorpe said, "We even believe that the best way to permanently eliminate war is to "All Quiet on the Western Front" is released annually in various countries."
Because this film is too famous, I only select three clips for analysis and try to achieve the effect of seeing the whole picture in one spot.
1. Teachers and students
University classrooms, teachers and students, the war has filled the ivory tower because of the two windows. It is destined to be the last class. Outside the window is a noisy farewell crowd. , Fight for honor, you will become generals", the students are sometimes confused and sometimes fantasized, they are shaken and start to imagine what it looks like to join the army, crying mothers and admiring beauties alternately appear, in these shots, teachers and students never appear together In the camera, because the teacher's brainwashing has not been successful.
The rhythm is getting faster and faster, the teacher's words are more and more provocative, the expressions of the classmates are rapidly switching in close-up, they start laughing, until finally the teacher and the students appear in the same shot, we know the teacher has succeeded , he urged his classmates to reach a consensus with him, the brainwashing was successful, the windows and the windows were synchronized, and the classmates also lined up outside the window, marching and cheering in the classroom, for themselves and the beautiful war they longed for, they became masters , the teacher disappeared. 2. The enemy and the man
Paul stabbed the French soldier in the chest with a spear. He panicked and continued to comfort the dying soldier, just like comforting a comrade in a hospital bed, he said, "You can go home, it's all right, you will go home before me. "The soldier understood his consolation and went home with a smile. At this moment, Paul grew up in the separation of life and death. He said, "If you come again, I will not kill you, you are the enemy, so I I'm afraid of you, but you and I are both human, I killed you, please forgive me, warrior, tell me you have forgiven me", a cannon shot and a smile, as if telling Paul, "Son, war is so ruthless, I forgive you and live well." 3. Butterfly and Gun
Under the sound of the harmonica, the trenches are rarely quiet. The battle report reads "Today, there is no war on the Western Front." Paul saw a butterfly through the machine gun bunker. The butterfly in the battlefield always reminds people of a beautiful life and a carefree life. , he climbed out of the trench to touch this rare beauty, he didn't know that a dark gun muzzle in the distance had been aimed at him, forward, and then forward, he could touch the butterfly only by reaching out, I think There must have been a sunny smile on his face, the gun went off, time stood still, this clenched right hand slowly spread out into eternity, close-up close-up close-up, as if the butterfly burrowed into the palm of his hand, carrying Paul Flying together, looking back and looking back, as if this group of young lives went straight to the cemetery, never appearing in this world of artillery fire...
The real and lasting victory is peace, not war. - Ralph. Waldo. Emerson
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