The film is adapted from a classic novel of the same name written by Erich Maria Remak. It tells the story of Paul Baumann and his classmates Lyle and Miller participating in the German National Volunteer Army during World War I and were sent to the front line to fight against th

You see, they are like a lifeless chess piece.

This film is adapted from a classic novel of the same name written by Erich Maria Remake . It tells the story of Paul Baumann and his classmates Lyle and Miller participated in the German National Volunteer Army and were sent to the front line to fight against the French army. On the battlefield, they witnessed cruel hunger, blood and death, and the absurdity of war made Paul from obsessed with war to disheartened.

film describes the fact that during World War I, the German government used a beautiful slogan to call on young and enthusiastic student volunteers to join the battlefield to defend their country, but the real situation of the war they witnessed on the front line was cruel and meaningless. When the protagonist finally woke up from his patriotic dream, he found that another group of young students were deceived into the battlefield and died, while he himself was shot dead by the enemy while catching a butterfly in a trench.

every scene in the video is empathetic. expresses the heaviness and pain of war to the fullest : the excitement of rushing to the front line with a sense of honor of defending the country with friends, the excitement of seeing the harsh environment on the battlefield and the fear of dangers at the critical moment of life and death, the doubts about the life that fell to the ground in an instant when charging forward, the first time facing the death of a friend, the first time meeting the enemy with a close encounter, and the first time listening to the enemy's breathing near death. Fear turns into blindness, and sympathy turns into indifference, so cold that he is not surprised by his own life and death. From a new recruit who yearns for war to gradually realizing the cruelty of war. Fear, fatigue, and pain gradually erode several protagonists. The same emotion also affected the audience bit by bit until the sad ending. There are no heroes in the war, I hope there will never be any war on the Western Front.