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Rating: 7/10 (23 April 2020)

"The path of glory" is a film that makes the fear of facing death real. There is a scene about cockroaches. Paris sees the cockroach crawling across the table and says, "tomorrow it will be closer to my wife and children than I am to them. Tomorrow it will be alive and I will be dead." Here's ferol slapping the dead cockroach and saying, "now you're better than him." The three soldiers who were about to be executed were superior to the cockroach only because they had more "power" than the cockroach and could decide whether it lived or died. In other words, they are now only slightly superior to cockroaches in power and status, and in the army, their lives are forever controlled by others. So presumably they are no different from cockroaches in the face of death.