Carnage and alert

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2007)

"All quiet on the Western front" (1930) directed by Lewis Milestone as a free adaptation of a well known novel concerning the absurd of war, when made on the back of soldiers inside the trenches, it was also as movie in itself a spell for attention and too concerning the stupidity of a necessary and anguished delay during the First War to finish the job. Meanwhile, continuing the conflict in Europe, just when the countries engaged were also on the mud, to coming out with the help of such generals. In which the bad luck was at that moment in both sides, but remaining on the back of the warrior's situation on the ground. There are some scenes very famous in this movie : the beer house as place for fraternization among inmates from an inner circle of Thule, supporting the continuation of the war in 1916 as it was an envision and a prophecy, the overexposing sights with the helmets on the heads of the soldiers dead on the trenches as ghosts on a dark sky and a battle across the wires which took an aura of fame to this pictures around the world.
The story of this movie was not also only an epic reconstitution, but otherwise like much more as barely the reconstitution of a small world with some turnabouts of destiny daily, either as if it was worsen the economic situation and even open a new global crisis, almost after the end of this kind of an unique warrior's epic story of trenches. The book of Remarque putting in sight by Milestone's direction was a synthesis of honor, expressing mainly the idea that school is the place where teenagers had learned the defense of war by a given teacher, who inflames them for fighting in support of nationalism and expansionism of their country. However, after that experience of one of the young men from this classroom on the very hole of the front's trenches against French army deployment, this one returns during a break telling his own reality there as pure horror and by this contrast between classroom and school teaching with his mates on the backward, the personality of this teacher is questioned and demystified in his retrograde speech of submission, before the inevitability of war and its fake greatness on the ground. After that, this same soldier returns to the trenches, when things apparently were on an impasse.
Such an advantage for making a plot with recent history, imagined as story of an opening conscience from the contact with the destruction as result of a war, whose trenches were the artificial new borders like a cemetery of souls in collective despair, it was the must of the novel itself, when by chance after it was pictured on the screen with much more compacted strength by its plasticity. Also discovering in the main character as an absurd of representing any young human being dead, before the range of searched happiness since the childhood and scholarship. Depassed, suddenly, without the time for maturity and for loving another half a face of other genre, not keeping in touch even with such dreamed development for his hopeful future, on the landscapes from a nowhere finished countryside, for the sake's owner mentality of a citizenship, interrupted by an anonymous shot. Thus, provoking such a fortuity, like this same casualty before the peace arrival, instead into a social disjunction not waited by the old society, responsible of bloodiness and lack of adjustment to the losses, indeed in fighting for a wanton defeat as metamorphosis of beauty from the horror and pain in staccato.