All is Quiet on the Western Fr essays

All is Quiet on the Western Fr essays All is Quiet on the Western Front The movie All is Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war movie. The movie expresses in so many ways the horrible aspects of war. Not only does it show of the horrible deaths and of ignorance, but also it shows the effects on the soldiers mind and their loved ones. The war destroys the morals and values of everyones lives. The movie portrays how gruesome and heartless people become after being number by the feeling of death. The way the men constantly run into the fire of the machine gun seems so pointless, it seem possible to be helping the war effort at all. At one point in the movie Paul falls into a trench with a French soldier. Paul stabs him and kills the Frenchman. Once the Frenchman is dead Paul seems to feel remorse and speaks to him talking about how they could be brothers and friends. He explains he didnt want to kill him but thats how he has to survive and that no one will ever realize we all can live together. The general feeling of anti-war comes through during his speech to the dead Frenchman The morals that people normally held high at this time were all put in the back of their minds to survive. When one of the boys begs his friend who lost his leg for his boots it was a very low thing to do but he needed them and his friend did not. Another example of the way the movie portrays the lost of morals is when the young women invite the boy over and in return of the boys bringing food the ladies give them sexual pleasures. And yet again when Paul comes home he lies to his mother and to a mother of one of his dead friends. Paul felt the need to lie to the dead mother but when she begs for the truth because she knows her son did not die an easy death he still refuses to tell the truth. The people at home are so ignorant to what really goes on it just shows how they people of the country are very uninformed w...