Sunday, February 19, 2012

All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)

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Leave it to Beaver meets sheer terror, of which some scenes are as awfu and numbing l to watch as anything filmed with much fancier Spielbergian gizmos. Guess that's because war is impossible to either describe or understand either in words or in moving pictures or in any way whatsoever. Yet between scenes of carnage the best reason given for war in the first place is "some mountain in France offended some field in Germany." The film won best picture and then nine years later... 

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