{"id":507139,"date":"2022-11-06T02:57:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-review-dutifully-competent-and-dull\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T02:57:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:57:38","slug":"watch-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-review-dutifully-competent-and-dull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-review-dutifully-competent-and-dull\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;All Quiet on the Western Front&#8217; Review: Dutifully Competent and Dull"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e21bccfaca\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e21bccfaca\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-review-dutifully-competent-and-dull\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_Review_Dutifully_Competent_and_Dull%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;All Quiet on the Western Front&#8217; Review: Dutifully Competent and Dull&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-review-dutifully-competent-and-dull\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_Review_Dutifully_Competent_and_Dull%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;All Quiet on the Western Front&#8217; Review: Dutifully Competent and Dull&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_Review_Dutifully_Competent_and_Dull%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;All Quiet on the Western Front&#8217; Review: Dutifully Competent and Dull&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_Review_Dutifully_Competent_and_Dull%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;All Quiet on the Western Front&#8217; Review: Dutifully Competent and Dull&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s a reality of modern war films \u2014 or, at least, the good ones \u2014\u00a0that they tend to be horrifying and exciting at the same time. You could say that\u2019s a contradiction that grows out of the kinetic, larger-than-life nature of the movie medium. Or you could say it\u2019s a truth that expresses something fundamental about war: that the very reason war persists, for all its terror and destruction and death, is that there\u2019s something in human nature that is drawn to war. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, in their way, act this out for us. Once again, though, I\u2019m speaking of the good ones. There is no more powerful an example than \u201cSaving Private Ryan.\u201d I have never seen a war film more thrilling, and I have never seen a war film that made me confront, more memorably, the unspeakable blood-spurting fear and devastation of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    By contrast, the new German version of \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d feels like an experience that\u2019s been s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped to the bone \u2014 morally, spiritually, and dramatically. Based on the 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, it\u2019s not a movie that tries to turn the infamous meat-grinder horror of the trench warfare of World War I into some sort of \u201cspectacle,\u201d the way that Sam Mendes\u2019 video-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> apocalypse \u201c1917\u201d did. The film\u2019s hero, Paul B\u00e4umer (Felix Kammerer), is a student who, three years into the war, enlists in the Imperial German Army to fight for the fatherland. He is soon sent to the Western Front, a place where millions of soldiers have already gone to their deaths in what is essentially a homicidal turf war where no turf exchanges hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Over the course of the war, the land \u201ccapture\u201d on the Western Front was meager; the location of the front line never moved by more than half a mile. So why did all those soldiers die? For no reason. Because of a tragic \u2014 one could say obscene \u2014 historical accident: that in WWI, the means of fighting was caught between an older, \u201cclassical\u201d mode of stationary combat and the new reality of long-distance slaughter made possible by <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>. By the end of the war, 17 million men had fallen between those cracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The 1930 Hollywood version of \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front,\u201d directed by Lewis Milestone, is widely regarded as an anti-war landmark. But, of course, if you watch it now, the war scenes won\u2019t make an audience shudder the way they did a century ago. The bar for terror and carnage onscreen has been raised far beyond that. Edward Berger, the director of the new \u201cAll Quiet,\u201d stages his war scenes in what\u2019s become the standard existential bombs-bursting-in-earth, debris-flying-everywhere, war-is-hell-because-its-violence-is-so-random mode of pitiless annihilation. He does it competently, but not better than that; he doesn\u2019t begin to touch the level of imagination that has gripped us in the war cinema of Spielberg, Kubrick, Coppola, Stone, Klimov. Popping out of the trenches, Paul and his fellow soldiers are confronted by a merciless hail of bullets, they\u2019re dunked face down in the mud, they\u2019re shot in the guts or in the head, they\u2019re attacked with bayonets and machetes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet the pale, gentle-hearted Paul, whose newly issued uniform has come off the corpse of a fallen soldier (a point meant to illustrate the endless cycle of death in WWI), somehow fights on and survives. He strikes us as a mild young man, yet there\u2019s a ruthless killer inside him. Whirling to shoot one soldier, then knife another, he becomes, in essence, a desperate action hero, and I put it that way only because I didn\u2019t find his acumen on the battlefield especially convincing. Berger, as a filmmaker, wants to bring us \u201cclose\u201d to war, but the horror in \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d is in your face and also rather tidy in its presentation. Maybe that\u2019s why it feels numbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The great war films aren\u2019t reticent about mixing personal drama into the combat. They feature characters as edgy and defined as their theater of violence. But the new \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d is two and a half hours of dramatic minimalism, as if this were somehow a measure of the film\u2019s integrity. The soldiers, including Paul, are barely sketched in, and you\u2019re frankly relieved when the movie cuts to conventional scenes of the German vice-chancellor, Matthias Erzberger (Daniel Br\u00fchl), as he tries to broker a peace with the French <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>s who have trounced the German army. The negotiations are one-sided; the French, who hold all the cards, want surrender on their terms. But we register, behind Erzberger, the implacable never-say-die resentment of the German officers, which will of course be carried forward into the next war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Stanley Kubrick, with \u201cPaths of Glory,\u201d made what is still the greatest movie about trench warfare, and he wasn\u2019t shy about involving us in actual drama. \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d lumbers along, so that even once the armistice is struck there\u2019s still another combat episode, all to demonstrate, with overly highlighted tragic irony, that the body count in World War I kept escalating for no reason. Anyone sane would agree with that. Yet \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d is the war movie as thesis statement. 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