"All Quiet on the Western Front" 1930. Lewis Milestone, director:
The scene where the protagonist, Paul (Lew Ayres), as a WWI German soldier has to spend a terrifying night trapped in a shell crater with the corpse of an enemy soldier he has just killed. The moment when Paul's naive illusions are forever stripped away by the horror and sheer stupidity of killing other human beings just because some "authority" says so.
Soliliquy: "Oh God, why did they do this to us? We only wanted to live, you and I...."
A brilliant film. (Best Picture, 1930) Watch a gang of innocent young recruits destroyed by cynicism, despair, bullets, and madness. Timeless; things haven't changed; young men (and women) are still dying, while TPTB play word games--(surge? or escalation?? How about MURDER)...
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