All quiet on the western front (Netflix)

[nocoincidences]

This is a beautifully filmed and horrifying depiction of the insane brutality of WW1.

If you can stand watching it, it's worth it.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Which version? nt

[nocoincidences]

2. New, German remake.

It's a killer. Steel yourself.

[Abolishinist]

3. Wow, this looks AMAZING!

Thanks so much, I will definitely watch it.

And of course, as usual, the side note is we never learn from our past. A generation later, the insanity started all over again.

Trailer...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I read that book some 40 years ago, when a friend recommended it to

me by quoting the last line of the book. Wow.

It is totally amazing. I do need to watch this new movie.

[MLAA]

5. I need to reread it. I remember finding and reading everythingI could by the author.

This was nearly 35 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Maria_Remarque

[mitch96]

6. I don't have netflix. Do Netflix movies ever make it to the general public?

[Aristus]

7. I'm going to watch it next Wednesday night.

Mrs. Aristus is going to be out of town, which is the only reason I'd have the opportunity to see it in the first place. Looking forward to it.

The novel is one of my favorite books. I have the final paragraph committed to memory.

***SPOILER***

He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.