Film and Philosophy
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Word count=1595 Student Number=344885 All Quiet On the Western Front (1930) Paul Baumer and his friends are typical teenage boys living in Germany during World War one. They live at home and attend school just like normal young boys until one life changing day when they enter school and listen painstakingly to the preaches off their teacher Professor Kantorek. The professor informs the boys rhetorically of how Germany needs them fighting for their country, glamorising the concept of war, mixing heroism and adventure in his speech leading the classroom full of young boys to rise with excitement cheering and eager to go and fight in the great war for their country. Paul and his class friends are then recruited and sent to train in order to be prepared for the fighting that lays before them. The boys arrive at training camp and discover that their old postmaster 'Himmelstoss' is now their drill sergeant. Himelstoss...

