An in-depth chat about the Oscars

Elissa 2022-03-27 09:01:09

"I can't tell you what you don't know." "To die for your country is not a beautiful and sweet thing. To die for your country is a dirty and painful thing." Patriotism is one of the things that destroy European civilization. A big killer. In the name of patriotism, rulers can do countless dehumanizing things. War is one of them. Sending other people's children to the battlefield, until they become cannon fodder and meat mud, few people know why they are. and fight.

Aracely 2022-03-22 09:02:01

The film was shot in 1930. The smoke of World War I has not yet dissipated, and the cannons of World War II are already in front of us. On the battlefield, there will never be a shortage of young boys like flowers. /Compared with the novel, the movie has cut some content, and the chapter-based story in the book has also been reduced to a short scene of 5 to 10 minutes. It is inevitable that the rhythm is a bit rushed. In the Catholic hospital, the person who was sent to the hospice due to excessive blood loss and the person who survived and came back from the hospice are not the same person, but the film arranges these two scenes on Paul, perhaps to reflect Paul's strong Willpower, but the effect is mediocre. The book is more about borrowing what happened in the hospital to show the cruel panorama of the war: even in the hospital there is no escape from the shadow of death. The biggest contribution of the film is the protagonist Paul, a handsome boy from Osnabrück, intelligent and loves literature, melancholy and bright Paul. / Best Picture & Best Director at the Oscars that year. 032817/202108