"Hiding in the trenches,
I don't know what I hear, I don't know what I see,
Only know that against the palate, there is only the smell of gunpowder and death in the nose. "
"An hour before the final battle charge, the soldiers were overwhelmed, trying to tell dirty jokes and swear words in the trenches, one soldier suddenly broke down and cried, the officer roared for the soldier's superior to shoot him, and the others watched numbly. ."
"The captured German soldiers were trembling, they were scared, and honestly, I was more scared than they were."
"Those German soldiers were good people. They were good people who loved their families and cared about their children. Before the war they might have been a clerk or run a grocery store, but now they're stuck in this uniform like we are."
"At the time of the announcement of the truce, the sound of the cannons gradually disappeared from the rumbling in the distance, the world became quiet, no one cheered, no one spoke, everything was so silent, and everyone was at a loss as to what to do next."
"Even if people in the country express sympathy and understanding, it means that they have no idea what happened on the battlefield. They will never know that those 18- and 9-year-old soldiers died quickly when they first came to the front line, and their bodies did not turn black until they turned black. Someone was reluctantly buried."
Before watching this film, I had browsed another documentary "World War I and Sports", and I felt that the British soldiers were not going to war but to outings. In this film, the pictures are all the smiling faces of young soldiers and cruel war scenes, while the narration is the vicissitudes of 6-70-year-old veterans. This extreme contrast makes me particularly afraid that there will be another such unnecessary and unjustified scenes. war. After all, war is the carnival of politicians and the hell of ordinary civilians.
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