BRILLIANT ANTI WAR PICTURE

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2000)

One of the greatest films of all time. Far superior to such modern films as Saving Private Ryan. The battle scenes are impeccable and it tells in an outstanding way how their naive hopes failed them and tells alot about growing up. As opposed to other films, crane lifted camera is used instead of a man standing behind them like in Saving Private Ryan. The quality of the performances was extremely surprising because at that time there was alot of bad acting among young male performances. As well as being one of the most moving films of all time it is pretty entertaining for a masterpiece The characters can all be sympathised with including the misunderstood professor because propaganda and unnecessary patriotism were very common during the first world war. Without being particularly graphic it is still one of the most harrowing war films of all time. The scenes with the French civilian girls tells about the desparation and loneliness of war in a beautiful way