Admittedly, the brutality of the war (especially the Cambrai Offensive) in the film is only too much. However, the indictment of the war itself seems to have been diluted too much under the film's carefully selected "excellent" narrative angle.
The narrators listened to the draft speeches on the street, and although they didn't know what the politicians were talking about, they still instinctively felt that fighting for the country was a very exciting thing. In the army, despite marching for dozens of miles every day and eating bad food, they have no complaints except the bitterness . ".
On the battlefield, machine guns and cannons took away nearly half of the same period in just a few tens of seconds, but looking back, the narrators are more expressing how brave and lucky they are, although because there are so few people they know all of a sudden Halfway through, I felt a lot of emotion, but I didn't have any extra thoughts .
Occasionally captured prisoners, the narrators say, the Germans were very brave fighters, not nasty people, they shouldn't kill each other, but regret only that they didn't fight together on their side. "We should fight the French, or the Russians together, not kill each other"
The war is over, and the narrators are a little disappointed. I seem to have had enough of this war, but I feel that this memory is irreplaceable and worth cherishing, and I don't even regret the choice to join the army.
Of course, the director may just want to show these numb and even "stupid" soldiers to arouse thinking.
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