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GrayRVA t1_iycodqe wrote

Reply to comment by STORMPUNCH in Rainy River City Daily by Quardener

I cannot bring myself to watch All Quiet on the Western Front. The book gets more and more horrific as I get older.

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TheCheeseDevil t1_iycrd8n wrote

I remember the school showing us the 1930 film in middle school after reading the book and that messed me up enough

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Asterion7 t1_iyda8gk wrote

It is an amazing book. And the first one Hitler banned when he came to power.

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GrayRVA t1_iye5xim wrote

An amazing collage professor of mine did a deep dive into the book and the best poems about WWI. Haunting shit.

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Stitchmond t1_iycu8ja wrote

I'd never read the book but the film is not all that graphic; akin to most recent historical war dramas. Band of Brothers, 1917, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, The Patriot. Perhaps less romantic than some.

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GrayRVA t1_iycvsps wrote

It’s not the gore, it’s the suffering of boys being sent to the trenches to die or if they didn’t die, emerge with PTSD (not that there was such a diagnosis). And for what? The amusement of powerful men.

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Stitchmond t1_iyderu8 wrote

OK, I understand where you're coming from. There's certainly different types of "graphic" beyond gore. Having not experienced war and trench warfare specifically, I'm not sensitive to such depictions in film and lit. I can see how others, like those with PTSD as you mention, would have difficulty viewing or reading things that many just consider media to be consumed and analyzed.

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elgro t1_iyed7ey wrote

If you haven’t seen it take a look at They Shall Not Grow Old. Has a similar vibe as it’s WW1, but first hand accounts from a lot of soldiers.

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