A Review of Netflix's: All Quiet on the Western Front

 A Review of 

Netflix's

All Quiet on the Western Front

This is my first blog movie review and the choice in film is both necessary and worthwhile. The movie is base of a novel written by German author, Erich Maria Remarque. The movie itself is shown from the German point of view. You can view the film in several ways on Netflix, but I personally watched it with English dubs and German subtitles. The visuals are both stunning and terrifying. You get a perspective of how tough life was for soldiers in what was nicknamed The Great War or The War to End All Wars.

The movie follows a soldier named Paul. He learns quickly that war isn't as glorious or exciting as he was lead to believe. He experiences loss and hunger, the struggle involved in killing another, and at points Paul is forced to steal for survival. This movie should be taken not as entertainment, but a lesson that life is precious. You learn to value friendship. You learn that how the men of one of the bloodiest war's of the twentieth century were manipulated to go to war. That those at the top value glory over life. There was at least few who saw the chaos need to end and during the movie strived to end the five year conflict.

I felt for the characters in this movie, but more important, I felt for the real life men that faced bone breaking odds. War is not something to glorify but to learn from. This movie honored the author and fighting men to live during so terrible a time.

This movie deserves five stars.