movie "No War on the West Front" is adapted from a classic novel, telling the story of the male protagonist Paul and his classmates participating in the German volunteer soldiers during World War I .
The beginning of the video was carefree, even full of joy, and the only thing that was worried about was the relationship with their family. But when they happily rushed to the front line with the sense of honor that they brought glory to the motherland and the sense of showing off their fathers that they thought they could get the best-looking girl. But what awaits them on the battlefield is death and endless fear and abyss. And their innocence and ignorance are destroying them step by step.
When they are not trained, they wake up and even want to escape, they have no choice. Behind everyone in war is a family, which includes parents, wives and children. But when they had to attack their kind because of war, they struggled to death with tears in their eyes, because on the battlefield, either you die or I die, so they cannot have extra empathy and sympathy.
The cruelty of war is not only on the battlefield but also after the war. Even if the war ends, the various fears and fears left behind during the war have caused people to fall into an endless abyss. Therefore, many people who survived after the war have more or less extreme mentality. Only those strong and optimistic people can survive the erosion of war.
"Meditations" says that war should be fighting for peace and for freedom. I agree deeply, but even though the wars over the years have mostly fought for interests and for expansion. War is a massacre that starts for a country or even a race, but they forget that they are all humans in essence.
For their own political interests and goals, those in power have not only harmed their own people but also the people of other countries. But they are essentially humans. What the world is facing now is not plunder, but how to protect the world's environment so that this home on which humans rely on can raise generations of human beings.
And this film well interprets a group of young people's sense of mission from ignorance to fighting for the end. The male protagonist Paul also fully interprets the weakness and kindness in the face of death. In the end, he became a victim because of the commander's self-interest. There was never a protagonist's halo in the war, and their death did not bring much benefit to the country, because in the end they were just cannon fodder sent to the battlefield by the regime.
video shows the nothingness of war well, so this video's recommendation index is four and a half stars. Although the original author said that some changes have not met their expectations, for the film and television writers, the irony of war and humanity expressed in this film is very well expressed. It is ironic that soldiers on the front line are facing the threat of starvation to death, but those in power live a luxurious life.
