ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Soldiers in WW1 are killing themselves with forks. Meanwhile, “authority” complains that the croissants were not fresh.

“Authority” drinks tea and watches bombings from its balcony while soldiers get run over by enemy tanks and catch fire. “All Quiet On the Western Front”, released in 2022, was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won four of them. The film is in the war genre, but it almost seemed horror-like. With the sound and the shots, if you didn’t have any prior knowledge of the film, you would think it was a sort of postapocalyptic horror movie. My favorite part of the film was that it was a foreign film, from Germany. It is a nice change from all these American films with an American POV, so I really enjoyed that it was from Germany’s

POV, because they are usually the antagonist. This war film was very realistic, one of the most realistic ones I have ever seen. It really touched on the brutality of war and young soldiers. I read that the director really wanted to make a war film that doesn't portray the main character as a hero, and I think this film accomplished that. The ending was almost anticlimactic, but I think the film wouldn’t be half as good if the ending was different. I liked the aspects in this film that aren’t shown in a lot of other war movies. This film actually made me think about the gruesome effects of war, and it accomplished more than almost any war film that I have seen. Overall the film was shot and directed well, its cinematography was beautiful and memorable and it is very deserving of all the recognition it received.

A review of an Oscarwinning German film

by Ivy Davidson