After thinking about it, I feel that the classic is really a classic. There are many anti-war films, and the in-depth angle determines the depth that can be achieved. The story begins with a group of high-spirited high school students encouraged by their teachers to participate in the war, and ends with the cruelty and death of the war. In the middle is a group of patriotic young people with heroic dreams who gradually disillusioned their dreams to feel death, face helplessness, and just survive the war experience. .
War is war, and there is no such thing as heroism except life or death. The reason they fought so hard was simply to survive. Enemies are also other people's sons, husbands, and fathers. They are strangers but they have to live and die, and they can't find any reason to fight except to survive.
The story ends with Paul going to catch a butterfly and getting shot. The butterfly that represents life just perished in the war.
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