I recommend to you "All Quiet on the Western Front".
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This is the third production of the same novel with the same name by the German novelist "Erich Maria Rimack"..if the English translation of the German title was accurate..
" Im Westen nichts Neues "
Literally..in the West, there is nothing new.
This is the expression of German military newsletters during the First World War..
The movie is made with precision and skill..and I think it will take such an Oscar this year..
Personally..I read the novel, translated (as usual, a poor translation) into Arabic..I watched the black and white movie..and then recently this 2022 production produced by Netflix.
It is a German war movie based on novel by the German novelist "Erich Maria Rimack" who participated in the First World War and witnessed the horrors of this war. The film is directed by "Edward Berger".
"If you give power to a man, he will turn into a monster." Most are responsible for making wars and igniting them between peoples, and thus the biggest and most destructive wars are between peoples except in their appearance and the damage they cause. battle fronts.
Whoever watches the film will know that the first step in making wars is by convincing people that they are fortunate to participate in this war and that the fate of the world and the achievement of justice depends on their sacrifice in this war and that history will remember them forever because of their bravery in fighting and that their names will be written in letters of gold in the records of peoples and that victory is very close, it is only a few steps until you reach the capital of the enemy! With these slogans and lies, any people who fall into the trap of believing them are transformed into sacrifices of the line of fate. They will surely perish in the worst and most hideous way.
The second step to urging people to war is to convince them that human glory and heroism do not happen except in the arena of wars, and that whoever participates in the war will be accompanied by the glory of that action forever, and the people, history and justice will be indebted to him because of his heroism. Glory and no heroism, but pure brutality, raw meanness, and the most eloquent state of decadence of the human race.
Watching this movie will make us confused in determining the standards of survival, as it seems that all the results are catastrophic. Death in it is achieved, whether on the physical or psychological level, and the loss in it is limitless. You can imagine the size of the loss of a young man who did not reach the age of twenty while losing his life through an absurd, crazy war or loss His psychological balance and the imbalance of his mind was achieved through the pictures of the terrifying horrors he witnessed on the battlefield, which will accompany him until the end of his life. From this we know that wars do not produce any survivors and that whoever participates in them will obtain destruction in any way from the horrors.
The film clearly shows that those who send people to the battlefields do not go there, and that all their talk about heroism and courage is done behind closed doors and in front of shiny offices, and after consuming delicious meals and luxurious drinks. Quietly and then forget the bitterness of the experience invented by the human race.
The film is a message that people do not seem to want to understand, which is that wars are the worst form of human degeneration, and that those who create them are the most despicable and brutal category, and that everything that is said about the heroism and glories of the fighting fronts are just lies that have nothing to do with the truth ... that truth that only he knows Whoever had his misfortune to wallow in the mud of one of the madness experiences of war at some place and time.