" No War on the Western Front " has been awarded the first work with strong thoughts since the Academy Awards, one of the "greatest anti-war movies" in the history of film.
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The story background of this film is World War I. The film reveals the tragic reality of the war and defeats the so-called "patriotism" dream. The movie was released in the 1930s. The cruelty of war is its most sensitive topic.
film mainly tells the story of the German government urging young and enthusiastic student volunteers to join the battlefield to defend their country. Instigated by the teacher's chauvinist thought, Paul and his classmates devoted themselves to battle with their heroic ideals. After training, these "child soldiers" were sent to the Western Front to participate in the war. However, the naive dream was shattered, and soon they found themselves involved in a lasting, cruel war. The battlefield was gloomy and terrifying, and many people were wailing and struggling, just to get rid of the threat of death, but they could only fall down powerlessly.
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This film uses magnificent and real war scenes to illustrate the cruelty of war without any description of justice and injustice. The cruelty of war and the fragility of human nature are vividly displayed by this movie.
Finally, Paul climbed out of the trench to catch the butterfly, but was shot dead by a cold gun. The meaning is beauty. Young people's yearning for peace, the country, and the beautiful things. However, compared with war, the life of an individual is insignificant.
——The last words of the deceased are not to take revenge, but there will never be (war)
——He died in October 1918, and the entire front was so calm and quiet that the war report of the army command only wrote this sentence: There is no war on the Western Front.
