Best Picture contenders Everything Everywhere All At Once and All Quiet on the Western Front can’t hide their hollowness and no amount of glittering prizes will fill that hole.
Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Tallie Medel, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., Biff Wiff, Brian Le, Aaron Lazar, Narayana CabralAll Quiet on the Western Frontowes some of its current success to Vladimir Putin, whose sending of thousands of young, poorly trained recruits to attack Ukraine echoes the tactics of generals on both sides in World War I.
Remarque’s tale is often referred to as an anti-war novel, one of many gruelling, heartbreaking books that emerged from WW1, including Henri Barbusse’sis a subjective exercise, filtered through the consciousness of a young recruit, Paul Bäumer, who volunteers for the war with a group of schoolfriends, and is plunged into relentless horror.
Berger’s new production is at its best in conveying the unspeakable squalor and barbarism of the war, which served to dehumanise everybody. Ordinary men on both sides were sent to kill each other or die trying. We are reminded in a set of after-titles, that more than 3 million soldiers died on the western front in four years of trench warfare in which neither side eked out an advance of more than a few hundred metres. Some say the body count was much higher.
Unlike the character in the book, this Paul never goes home on leave, never meets any girl, never spends time in hospital, and never gets involved in any discussions that show what’s really going on in the soldiers’ minds.
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