detachment from existential value

Kolby 2022-03-25 09:01:10

I would say that this film is not just about anti-war, but about detachment from existential values. There are always some value guides in the environment where you were born, and they are the talking points of everyone around you, but they have not experienced these personally, just wait and see, so they repeatedly convey how beautiful it is. You mustered up your blood and stepped into the field, only to find that it was not the case at all, and you desperately wanted to get away from it all, go home, and tell them the truth. However, no one understands your feelings, and you cannot convince anyone. They will only think that you are too cowardly, that you are useless, that you are not seeing far enough, and it is not that there is a problem with those value guides.

At this time, you can only find a little warmth in the place you hate the most, fight forever, and be homeless.

This is how society is. A group of people who talk about value guides drive a group of people with lofty ideals to take risks. They have always been ordinary, ordinary, and comfortable, and they can keep talking about it;

——To all lonely people who have escaped from the guidance of their own values

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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Tjaden: They tell me there's some people in this world take a bath every week.

  • Mueller: Listen, the sum of an arithmetic series is S = A + L times N over 2. Interesting, isn't it?

    Katczinsky: What do you want to learn that stuff for...? One day you'll stop a bullet and it'll all be worthless.