All Quiet On the Western Front

The film All Quiet on the Western Front was an excellent depiction of the hardships endured not only in the trenches, but society as a whole. The Great War was completely different from any other previous war. Gone were the days of Napoleonic warfare and traditional combat, instead these tactics were replaced by trench warfare and attacks on enemy positions by air. There are many concepts that are depicted in the movie that have been …

…in the war meant more of a capacity to kill. The warplanes would drop bombs on the enemy prior to a land attack. The fighting took quite a toll on the soldiers psychologically and this is clearly evident in the film when Paul is hiding in a bomb crater when all of a sudden he is fighting an enemy soldier. Paul eventually tries to save the soldier and is eerily deranged of the whole incident.