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Most people would know the story. Towards the end of WWI, Paul, a young German, enlists with his friends and is shocked by what he encounters at the front line.
I watched the 1930 version followed by the 2022 release. They are both great movies.
Both movies show the brutality and senselessness of war in the trenches. Any jingoism or claims of heroism are confined to those who, ignorantly or otherwise, would send those men to their deaths. In two and a bit hours you get a flavour of what these men went through, but then imagine months or even years of living in mud, exposure to the cold, hunger, lack of sleep, boredom, despair. The constant of threat of death from being shot by snipers, poisoned by gas or artillery bombardment. Then regular orders to charge at enemy positions that were defended by machine guns.
I watched the 1930 version followed by the 2022 release. They are both great movies.
Both movies show the brutality and senselessness of war in the trenches. Any jingoism or claims of heroism are confined to those who, ignorantly or otherwise, would send those men to their deaths. In two and a bit hours you get a flavour of what these men went through, but then imagine months or even years of living in mud, exposure to the cold, hunger, lack of sleep, boredom, despair. The constant of threat of death from being shot by snipers, poisoned by gas or artillery bombardment. Then regular orders to charge at enemy positions that were defended by machine guns.