Paths of Glory Lead Only to the Grave. Like The Killing , Paths of Glory explores the ways in which human reason, the capacity for making plans that will give the characters control of their world, is frustrated both by external circumstances and the irrational and destructive inner drives of the characters themselves.
Paths is certainly a film about war, but it is very different from the familiar Hollywood war film.
He is a career officer in Cobb's novel. Paths has often been described as an antiwar film.