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I watched All Quiet on the Western Front, so you don't have to. Don't bother. It sucks. If you watch it and by the end, you say, that sucked, don't come crying to me.
There were several scenes were he cried after killing someone. Fucking bullshit. You want to see how a soldier reacts to their first kill watch this scene from Barry (HBO)
https://youtu.be/lylcHY6tXXQ
Statistically speaking soldiers don't get ptsd from doing offensive missions, they get it from defensive missions. They don't get it from killing others, they get it from almost getting killed and seeing their friends get killed while pinned down.
@Jazzy_Butts there is a predisposition to assert that War is traumatising simply by the fact that is is stressful and involves death, really downplays the events it actually takes to twist and churn the minds of Soldiers and Marines. they are aware of the kill. they struggle when those they sympathise with are stripped away from shell shock, injury, death. they get absorbed in regret when they feel dissolution from the cause. it should be portrayed more thoroughly in media. Generation War with Volker Bruch did a decent job
It's a big long boring movie made to show you that war is bad, and that the Germans were pathetic, and to be pitied, and that war is an endless cycle. It is a movie without any joy or happiness or even a message beyond the trite. I kept waiting for the point but it never came, until the end, and when it did, it I was unsatisfying. I'm sure that was intentional, it was meant to make you feel like what war is like, but I already had figured that out so it was frustrating for me. What was most frustrating was that the films protagonist was a wimp. It was sad to watch, which was the point I guess.