Gut-churning battlefield realism and the unfamiliar German perspective take this powerful first world war film outside the usual war movie territory
. Could it go all the way? Well, it’s certainly a brilliantly made film, achieving a level of battlefield realism for the first world war that is gut-churning. Plus the unfamiliar perspective – that of the hapless, naive German soldiers whom we Brits are more used to thinking of as efficiently murderous killers mowing down Our Boys – gives the film a patina of strangeness and takes it outside the usual territory.
On the other hand, All Quiet’s chances will probably be harmed by a lack of interest in the first world war among the US voting pool. Unlike the second world war, and other major conflicts in which the US participated, the first doesn’t seem to have left as deep a scar on the national psyche – not when compared to those of the European nations involved in it.
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