When power takes hold of men, they don't see reason, rational, or rhyme. It only sees blood and the ways it can exact more!
This is what encapsulates the essence of what All Quiet on the Western Front. The film starts with a cycle of violence, death, jingoism, misplaces youth, violence, and death. And the cycle keeps on going.
Each scene, beautifully mounted and exquisitely crafted, just tries to prove that war is just this - this futile cycle of…