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# All Quiet on the Western Front [DVD]

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Realistic War Movie
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2021*

All Quiet on the Western Front is a movie released in 1930, directed by Lewis Milestone, and starring Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray. It is an incredible film that accurately displays the difficulty, victories, and truths of World War One. Unaware of future hardships, a group of German boys set off to the war feeling heroic and arrogant, because of their teacher’s manipulative speech and forced propaganda. However, when they reach the front, they quickly learn that war would destroy their lives, instead of pronouncing them heros. Each soldier in the group seems to drop like flakes and melt, dying miles from their warm homes, many just teenagers with a possibility of a wonderful life if they lived today. The film depicts horrible images of the truth: machine guns searing the scene, soldiers having leg amputations, and the drone of a bombing airplane. The movie ends with a scene of senseless violence: the main character, Paul, is shot by a hidden soldier as he reaches out to capture a butterfly for his sister. This movie is a cinematic success. Especially for the early 1900’s, it captured warfare as few had ever witnessed. The film is a roller coaster of opinion on The Great War. First, the movie seems to be encouraging the importance of war, and treats it as a true honor to go and fight, when it really was a burden thrust upon the young men of Europe. Even so, because of the propaganda surrounding their society, there was one student that became quiet when asked if he would join the others in the fight. However, he soon gave in and joined his friends when subject to peer pressure. When he is the first to die in battle, his peers are horrified, and the audience can’t help but feel the same.​​ The film then switches to another opinion: that war is not glory, but death. The storyline is very entertaining and sucks the watcher into the deep horror and reality of this war, especially as you watch your favorite characters die. Bringing to light the life of soldiers, the film highlights their reluctance to go back to war, as they commonly joke about how they should really fight. The camera gets up close and personal with those who die in battle as well, further insisting that the audience feels a part of the battle, and constant struggle for victory. The uniqueness of the bitter and symbolic ending fills the audience with remorse, as they watch the main character, Paul, fall victim to the same horror as his fellow comrades earlier in the film. Perhaps the only setback from this movie is the primitive and overdone acting shown by the general of the German troops, especially in the scene when he is drunk. In all, the quality of this movie is great. Finally, All Quiet on the Western Front helped me see and feel what I had already learned about World War 1.The movie begins with a scene of celebration with people singing and the teacher believing it will be a short war with few deaths. It’s hard to get swept up in their enthusiasm for going to the front when you can anticipate the horror that proceeds. This beginning contrasts sharply with the end. We see that every soldier has a family that suffered horrible grief, but the war didn’t recognize this. It just killed for the sake of sheer killing, and didn’t care about individual lives and the families who were impacted by their deaths. Seeing this occurrence is different from reading because you become attached to real individuals, and you see their death and how they die in different ways. One of them witnesses shell shock in first person, and runs out of safety and is hit by a shell. He had his leg amputated later along with thousands of other soldiers in WW1. Many others died from bullets and in hospital beds, with one in particular dieing from a bomb dropped from a plane above. I already knew that war is terrible, but seeing this movie really helped bring to life the horrors of war.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Required Viewing For Anyone Contemplating Going To War
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2015*

Blu-ray:Fidelity of video transfer is excellent and the audio is very good. It's a distinct improvement over the DVD. Keep in mind this is a 1930 B&W and any digital transfer will be constrained by 1930 film, camera and sound technologies, in addition to the condition of the source material used for the transfer.The original German novel was serialized in a newspaper Nov-Dec 1928 with the book published in early 1929 (Im Westen nichts Neues; literally: In the West Nothing New). An English language translation was published very quickly after that followed by the Academy Award winning film in 1930. It is very important to remember the novel and film were created during the interbellum period between the World Wars, five years before the rise of the Nazi party to power in 1933 (which promptly banned the book and its sequel). The movie was banned by the German censors under pressure from the growing Nazi party, which had developed particularly ugly and violent methods of getting their way using the SA, aka Brown Shirts.The movie follows the basics of the novel, with a class of boys in the German equivalent of high school receiving a lecture from their teacher about the patriotic glory of serving the Fatherland. It's reminiscent of a hoo-rah locker room pep talk. By the end, the entire class is moved by their teacher's exhortations to enlist en masse. Lost in the film and by most reading the book is the type of school, called a "gymnasium," the equivalent of a college preparatory high school. In Germany, the brightest students destined for the universities that passed the exams for it were sent to a gymnasium (this is NOT an athletic building). The others that continued their educations were sent to trade schools. These were the brightest, most intelligent young men, potentially the future of their country, launching themselves into what they believe will be a quick war with few losses. In reality, they're headed for the abyss of stalemated trench warfare.The reality of being a common soldier in the German Army starts to sink in when they're going through basic infantry training. The reality of war starts to hit home as they're being transported toward the front, they see the wounded being evacuated, and they come under harassing artillery fire. From there it continues to devolve into the grim realities of WWI trench warfare, with shell shock, fighting with the rats for their food, watching fellow soldiers get blown apart by artillery or machine gunned, and the gradual realization they're little more than expendable cannon fodder as the number of fellow classmates being killed or wounded increases relentlessly. In the meantime, there are hints of the gnawing questions about what they're fighting for and why. One of their battle hardened soldiers puts it well when he states they ought to strip all the kings, politicians and generals down to their underwear, put them into an arena, and let them fight it out among themselves with clubs to determine the winner. This is contrasted with one of the students' home leave when he encounters men too old to fight and completely out of touch with battlefield realities and the horrific human cost, debating the correct strategy to win the war as armchair generals in his home town's gasthaus (pub). It's also contrasted with a visit to his school, where the teacher is exhorting his current class to enlist using the same patriotic rhetoric, and they're also clearly out of touch with the war's brutal realities.Made only a couple years after "talkies" started replacing silent films, portions of the acting show vestigial silent era high drama over-acting. Sound effects are quite remarkable considering what they had to create, again just a couple years after the introduction of sound. Likewise, the special effects for small arms, machine guns, mortars and artillery are all real pyrotechnics. Scenes of this era shot using matte backgrounds are usually obvious if you look for them. I don't recall seeing any rotoscoping although I wasn't looking for it; that's normally detectable in vintage films. As would be expected, it's in the grainy B&W of its era, which accentuates its drab and weary bleakness. It was also made prior to 1934 when the strict, Draconian Hays Code could be enforced by the MPAA, which would have undoubtedly resulted in a number of scenes being shortened or cut entirely. The MPAA Hays Code not only set strict limits to language, sex and violence, it also controlled broader content and how it was portrayed compared to the code's [questionable] moral and ethical standards, and portraying an idealistic American way of life; it was de facto content censorship, including political and religious material, from 1934-1954 under Joseph Breen.Five stars for a realistic portrayal of the extremely brutal and violent reality of war, physically and psychologically (given 1930 technical filming constraints), with WWI in particular. It faithfully shows the bonds that develop among the common soldiers to cope with unspeakable battlefield horror, and contrasts it with how insulated and completely ignorant those on the "home front" are of the horrors their front line soldiers are enduring. It is classed as one of the all-time classic "anti-war" films. It should give pause to consider the real human cost of armed conflict before drawing one's saber and going to war.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It's a heart breaker
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2024*

Great story of the futility and horrors of war.There are two or three versions of this film, all pretty much the same. The older black and white versions are best because they convey the starkness and dark theme.

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