All Quiet on the Western Front

A lot has been written about this film. How wonderful it is. How terrible are the scenes it portrays. How well the score works; how the trench scenes contrast so effectively with the countryside scenes; how viewers feel for the characters, especially the main character, Paul. And how tense the ending gets, as we approach the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
   They are all right. This is an amazing film and well deserves its Oscar nominations (at this point in time, the Oscars still have to take place).
   We saw this on Netfix. I don't know if it is (or will be) available on the big screen but if it is, I imagine it will be even more effective there.
  Watch it. This sort of film doesn't come along very often.
add comment | read comments (0) 2023-02-01