In the last picture, Paul found a beautiful butterfly outside the trenches. It is a miracle to see such a beautiful butterfly on the battlefield. In the era of war, there is such a beautiful butterfly at the scene of the cannonball and meteor. hard. Paul's love of butterflies has been around since he was a child, and it shows up in the first half of the film. When Paul was returning home, he gave a shot. The shot was on the wall of Paul's house, right at the entrance. There were many specimens of butterflies, some of which he caught when he was a child, and some of which he liked very much. , such a simple scene was passed by, but it laid a foreshadowing for the back of the film.
Speaking of the last scene, Paul loved butterflies, so he reached out his hand to catch them, but he was hesitant. After all, things on the battlefield were uncertain, but Paul still reached out to catch butterflies. The hand that was catching the butterfly, slowly, slowly stopped moving. This is the end of the film. The image of the butterfly is also extremely important. The hand that fell at the end was not able to catch the butterfly. The symbol of the butterfly is a kind of hope and a hope for peace. The director arranged this scene as the ending, leaving us not only the sympathy for Paul, but also the deep reflection and blood and tearful indictment of the brutal war, and the yearning for a better life and human peace.
——Excerpt from Northern Literature
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