I've just now finished watching the new "All quiet on the Western Front". I watched it in German with subtitles.
I've never been a soldier, but it seemed to depict war as it really is. Uncompromisingly dark and brutal. It showed utter unmitigated horror, pain, suffering, despair and terror.
There was nothing redeeming about what they did. Not on either side. No honour, nothing of any merit, nothing of any hope, certainly nothing won. It was just a wretched waste of human life for absolutely no reason.
The stupidity of mankind and the utterly vile things we do to each other will ensure our eventual demise.
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