Stanley Kubrick is a genius. Path of Glory describes a conflict of war sparked by the bold command of an eager war general, the macroscopic part of which leads to the failure for various reasons of a suicide charge likely to take the hill; the microscopic part of this conflict Partly describes the death bout of the colonel with three soldiers and cavalry of war. Among them, the role of the colonel becomes the lever of the whole film. He is the link between the commanding class represented by General Geo and the combat units represented by the three soldiers. He is like a leader who leads the soldiers forward. If a humanist and idealist, as geo said, is embarrassingly hot. He was still in front of the gunfire and behind the dignity of every living being. Without him, the lieutenant's timidity would have lost a sigh of sympathy, and the general who ordered the artillery bombardment of his house would have lost his claim to be a true soldier, even though he had actually done an impossible battle. All commander responsibilities (that's where Kubrick's genius lies).
In the film, everyone is in danger, and war should be like this, but the supreme questioning of human beings and the infinite compassion for human suffering are highlighted in the strict and serious background, which is not what the French or German bullets and cannonballs can do.
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