Sunday, January 10, 2010
Baby Figurine With Crossed Arrows
Every fucking war is the thousand pains of the wearer, thousand deaths from those that the fight broke, and the myriad pleasures of bellies and belly from behind. this is what she screams bloody war, He leads me is a naive who believes that words hide ideas, ideas that will make happiness and who has not seen what bacchanalia dedication allowed behind the great wall speeches, proclamations, compliments and censorship ... [Aime Henri Gauthé soldier 2nd class, from his war diary]
is a city in Germany that Lewis Milestone's film starts. In a city in Germany as director of origin Russia has not named, and for good reason, at the very beginning of World War I, all German cities look alike to celebrate the departure for the front of thousands of men, a departure for the front all make in joy and happiness, the promise that they made a lightning victory over the enemy "bloodthirsty German" even accelerated the pace of their steps. And as in all German cities there, in the year 1914, university professors, from their desks or their platforms, trying to instill in the young lad of twenty patriotism all the more ardent and determined that it is far claimed the ear enemy. In this city that Lewis Milestone did not need to name the man's name Kantorek and it would be so smart, to call upon the legendary heroes, to evoke that bravery can sometimes make young women admiring and resolve, in advance and in a flash, all issues that these young men could arise if they decided to abandon their families and expensive studies for the defense and the glory of the Fatherland, that soon her classroom would empty for s' in swelling the ranks of these soldiers whose it looks, ultimately, that for the most part, they went to war over duped by their pride flattered that inflated nationalist ideals. Finally, what are the pride and ambition that guided my choice. Was it fair?
W. Tafel [Deputy Lieutenant of Huns, in a letter dated May 1916] His eyes warms me, his admiration makes me stretch the knee, her smile gave me heart. Beside me, in his eyes, my comrades, too, recovered (...) because a girl saw them, they had a look more serene and clear, a more firm, a more warlike forehead.
[Aime Henri Gauthé soldier 2nd class, from his war diary]
Bäumer, Kemmerich Kropp, Mueller, Behn, and fifteen others that Professor Kantorek had rallied to his cause, therefore, leave their comfortable and motivating small student life for a military career. But before reaching the barracks, where Himmelstoss, became chief factor simply because of general mobilization, they learn that to become a soldier, they would forget all about their past and their dreams of greatness by putting this tip sadism that characterizes so many people who suddenly move from one status to that of a simple running to Buyer - to them, actually, that would mean not balk when he would ask them to flatten out in the mud - they live now, where, for leaving one world and not yet fully joined the following, it is only to let live. I'm about to take a Pernod in English next to the covered market with Berry (...) Everything is very quiet (...) I'm not even dressed. We are free. I'll finish my duck this evening's brother Berry.
[Louis Hugon, RI 209th Reserve, in a letter dated August 1914. Louis Hugon, who was wounded in the forehead, died, three months later in a military hospital] And then, after the belly in the mud and one to two one to two steps in quick Himmelstoss of the blues would come where their good teacher Kantorek Despite his ardent patriotism, would never put their feet. In this camp, who was three strides from the front line, signed by the bombs enemy 
"bloodthirsty German"
they would publicize their early scares. As for the former, these old timers too few officers to spawn with the stashed in the back but experienced enough make a trench a small corner livable, they say everything they had learned that these young soldiers do not fall too quickly on the battlefield. Among other things, a truck accident is preferable to a shrapnel "bloodthirsty German" "received in the guts" 
We walked, we fight all day, physical exertion was choking us thought (...) Suddenly, a chill came, then a infinite weariness and the overwhelming need to be gentle, to love, to caress, to have exquisite lyrics, and to merge entirely into a single cry, Mom! [Marcel Rivier, from his War Diary. Marcel Rivier be killed on the Belgian front in November 1914] In the ranks of bleusaille we do not mourn the death of long Behn. This would certainly not lack of desire - indeed, the loss of their friend so sadden Bäumer, Kemmerich and all the others that they will not even try to understand why the war had known someone intimately when he was killed, not being a corpse, Council that their lavish Katczinsky because he had long known that a soldier who does not forget everything very fast or that Ponder is a soldier who helps his enemy to kill him - but rather by lack of time, missions to the front merging into a torrid pace. Although, on the firing line, they sometimes have some time, but devil, for a soldier who is on the line Fire what does that mean exactly have time? 
After this second episode warrior, by the way that Milestone has filmed to great effect, and for good reason, seeing him you'd think from archival images, our young hero will taste a well deserved rest. Finding himself so far from the bombs and fighting harassing, their heads could get back to work and among all these answers they give to the eternal question of why do we war, we must remember
"this kind of fever which we are fighting although no one wanted to fight "because
And then, during yet another battle, Bäumer receive a piece of shrapnel in the stomach. In a hospital, the extreme dedication of the doctors and nuns who officiated was stand, he would know some guys who had lost their reason to the front and with guys who had good reason to simulate disturbances of reason never to go back to the front. They will also know, his injury worsened, those places that no soldier, cut off by the war, he wanted to know because there lined up all those who no longer felt able to save. Fortunately for him would Bäumer these lobbies of death.
After his recovery, Bäumer, while on leave, visiting his parents. But if the encounter with his mother would be okay, that his father would turn into a nightmare. Indeed, what a bad dream this rich bourgeois him live he would suggest that behind it is denied to the frontline soldier lacks nothing, and at play, like his cronies of ingratitude, the military strategists who remade the war between their four walls to break the enemy " bloodthirsty German" that their son was slow to break. And this band of generals paper, which definitely had an answer for everything and knew everything better than anyone, if the war dragged, it was precisely because, unlike them,
"the soldier, who did, it does there knew nothing! "Oh
During this break, the teacher also would review Bäumer Kantorek, he always end up standing on his platform, shout in front of young lad of twenty, the same patriotism stashed who fears for his hideout. To have fought long and fought, and still believe the same as it was when, on his incantations, he embraced a military career, would ask Kantorek Bäumer a speech. To reveal the soldiers fought on the ground in the main concern of not getting killed, it would twenty young guy of twenty years all pumped up with pride, twenty enemies and to add additional
How selfish to tell his brother: you will die so I'm happy! Is not this whole war and this calculation is not it scary skeleton you hide under the guise of honor, military duty, sacrifice?
Then he would start looking for Katczinsky absent at these reunions. But when these two met, they would have just enough time to warm the homes of common memories, since a tiny piece of shrapnel had come from nowhere, becomes lodged in the minds of old timers.
die by chance, on a nasty twist of fate ... The way he was killed, he must really believe it's destiny. The shells fell maybe 100 meters away from us, a small chip barely bigger than a grain of corn struck him on the forehead and the blood gushed ... [Joseph Gilles, in a letter dated May 1916. Gilles Joseph will be killed the front less than four months after writing this letter by shrapnel]
that the dangerousness of a shell is measured by its sound and the ground war, c is like a mother, because, like her, she protects almost everything. After this second course of military instruction, given mainly by the pair Katczinsky / Tjaden, all would go on a mission. Behn, He would not return. Because committed against his will, indeed not to lose face, it is in the movie Milestone denouncing the victim most of patriotism rich in words and sermons but chilly in acts of Professor Kantorek, which either says Incidentally, its exact location in the Twin Nabucet Louis Guilloux, and because he died crying mother, he simply says the right word.
The night comes, as I suffer, then I think about my parents, especially my mother, like when I was sick and I was very young, and I'm not alone in thinking about my mother because I hear the wounded and dying call their mom.
[Désiré Emile Renault, 77th RI, in a letter dated August 1914]
We walked, we fight all day, physical exertion was choking us thought (...) Suddenly, a chill came, then a infinite weariness and the overwhelming need to be gentle, to love, to caress, to have exquisite lyrics, and to merge entirely into a single cry, Mom! [Marcel Rivier, from his War Diary. Marcel Rivier be killed on the Belgian front in November 1914] In the ranks of bleusaille we do not mourn the death of long Behn. This would certainly not lack of desire - indeed, the loss of their friend so sadden Bäumer, Kemmerich and all the others that they will not even try to understand why the war had known someone intimately when he was killed, not being a corpse, Council that their lavish Katczinsky because he had long known that a soldier who does not forget everything very fast or that Ponder is a soldier who helps his enemy to kill him - but rather by lack of time, missions to the front merging into a torrid pace. Although, on the firing line, they sometimes have some time, but devil, for a soldier who is on the line Fire what does that mean exactly have time? Well, for a soldier who is on the firing line, it means having time to wait, wait, first, that the enemy finally stop its vicious bombing - to escape the unbearable wait, indeed untenable because Intensive marmitages few that do not end up reaching their targets, Kemmerich during his second mission, leave the dugout made of wood and bricks. He would not go far enough, however, to escape shrapnel, for him, a nasty injury, but for all other residents of his shelter, it is only superficial because it was necessary for the war continues that the sum of their individual small patrols does not degenerate into panic - and another, that the enemy wants them to see the tip of his nose, and this new expectation generates so much anxiety in him and suddenly, a irrepressible need for revenge, it is not impossible to believe that the latter has somewhat helped run, literally, theories, sometimes questionable, the general staff.
The laurels of victory float on the enemy's bayonets. This is where we go and take the win in a fight melee if you want them (...) throw yourself into the ranks of the enemy and determine the weapon to the discussion cold.
[Ferdinand Foch]
After this second episode warrior, by the way that Milestone has filmed to great effect, and for good reason, seeing him you'd think from archival images, our young hero will taste a well deserved rest. Finding himself so far from the bombs and fighting harassing, their heads could get back to work and among all these answers they give to the eternal question of why do we war, we must remember "this kind of fever which we are fighting although no one wanted to fight "because
only be said by a former student of Professor Kantorek soon to die, she proves that there is in this group converted, guys who could never what their mentor had titillated home for a morning of general jubilation they abandon their student status to that of a volunteer."I felt that it was wonderful to live. I saw fields of wheat, flowers and girls. I ran into life by fleeing death. " would he say in effect immediately before returning to the forehead to the front where he would meet again Himmelstoss which, it must be said, we do not learn much new to be included, too, these men he just teasing pride for them to climb on the fire line. Of course, to induce a type to fight, or we can flatter or hurt his pride, Himmelstoss to pee in his pants before the enemy, certainly within the second alternative, but damn!, why here on this subtle variation on the pride of any decision maker, when, moreover, say nothing, absolutely nothing about these men who are involved in the conflict for the sole purpose of protecting their own? The speech is peaceful here in this film, as he denounces Kantorek patriotism, a little deaf to the voices that upset. And it's a tad unfortunate. I say frankly: a 35 year old man who dies is a broken home (...) but I can not help but wonder if there is no more sadness when what is suddenly destroyed, c ' Hope is the home itself. [Lieutenant Despres, in a letter dated October 1916 that he meant for his son nine years. Lt. Despres was killed in April 1918]
During the leave, and with the imminent death of Kemmerich Bäumer, meanwhile, would find a little taste for prayer, but more the urge to live, life slowly escaping the body of his friend surely incite.
[Willi Lutz, adjutant of the German army, in a letter dated June 28, 1916. Willi Lutz will be killed in the war two days after writing]
During this battle, which would send Bäumer Himmelstoss fulfill his destiny as a soldier, the same Bäumer, to protect themselves from enemy bullets, should take refuge in a shell crater. In a gesture of self-defense he hurt a French soldier. With the night, the fighting will subside, and in the near silence that is established, the groans of fellow-sufferers become so present and so atrocious in his ears that attempt to silence by offering her help. In vain, for the man, clinging to life, continue to moan. He cursed. But who would hate it really? This man, refuse, quite involuntarily, his aid, prevented him from repentance, or to have everything at once realized, helping promiscuity, that the crime was fundamentally a legal concept any military himself?
In the morning, everything would be finished. The French soldier sleep for eternity and for having understood that he had in his death, a good share of responsibility, the soldier would have definitely pulled Bäumer a line on the fighter he had become to swallow his pride requires dirty, gossip claims of heroism and patriotism of Professor Kantorek.
Where is the enthusiasm of 14? Wherever I turn my eyes, I see more signs and I know people from all ranks even higher.
Bäumer For the soldier, with the death of the French soldier, the time of disenchantment was therefore timely. But this girl paper, which adorned a wall of the bar for military would attend while on leave, do not encourage it to fall immediately into the illusion? It's awfully nice to be dressed and carefully, she would evoke both love and civilization, all the things that decide to wash, for love and the civilization that does not live in filth especially when in this dirt we can find some acts of war that have partially the scent of crime. And precisely because it would then be in that mindset back in love and civilization that During her bath, which would take place in a river, war is war, it would take, with three of his cronies more followers as motors, a trio of young French women. Certainly, Suzanne, one of these three women, would give a little love and civilization because she would make love with words and how he wanted to hear, but because it would cons of food and to overcome his own lack of love, all the lads being mounted to the front, there is no doubt that between his arms, Bäumer get lost in illusions. Obviously, the fault does not return to Suzanne, but the war because it, to create lack and lack hard to fill, has the power to do everything backwards, including love.[Aime Henri Gauthé soldier 2nd class, from his war diary]
They wanted, those who sleep in lily, be gentle and benevolent, and give frozen asses the illusion of warmth and tenderness. The poor guy! There are so unfortunate!
And then, during yet another battle, Bäumer receive a piece of shrapnel in the stomach. In a hospital, the extreme dedication of the doctors and nuns who officiated was stand, he would know some guys who had lost their reason to the front and with guys who had good reason to simulate disturbances of reason never to go back to the front. They will also know, his injury worsened, those places that no soldier, cut off by the war, he wanted to know because there lined up all those who no longer felt able to save. Fortunately for him would Bäumer these lobbies of death. After his recovery, Bäumer, while on leave, visiting his parents. But if the encounter with his mother would be okay, that his father would turn into a nightmare. Indeed, what a bad dream this rich bourgeois him live he would suggest that behind it is denied to the frontline soldier lacks nothing, and at play, like his cronies of ingratitude, the military strategists who remade the war between their four walls to break the enemy " bloodthirsty German" that their son was slow to break. And this band of generals paper, which definitely had an answer for everything and knew everything better than anyone, if the war dragged, it was precisely because, unlike them,
"the soldier, who did, it does there knew nothing! "Oh
[Maurice Antoine Martin-Laval, a doctor at the 58th RI, in a letter dated February 1916]
injustice and human ingratitude! While you walk the streets or places of pleasures of Paris, while sitting limply in a comfortable chair in velvet (...) will discuss whether wormwood is a poison (...) while away from danger you ask with a look of annoyance and disdain: what do they do? Why n'avancent they not? If I were fire I would do that during this time, gentlemen, (...) the soldiers in general are now commending their souls to God, before performing (...) the greatest of sacrifices, sacrifice their lives.
During this break, the teacher also would review Bäumer Kantorek, he always end up standing on his platform, shout in front of young lad of twenty, the same patriotism stashed who fears for his hideout. To have fought long and fought, and still believe the same as it was when, on his incantations, he embraced a military career, would ask Kantorek Bäumer a speech. To reveal the soldiers fought on the ground in the main concern of not getting killed, it would twenty young guy of twenty years all pumped up with pride, twenty enemies and to add additional
"no pain is good even to save our borders" and is stillKantorek would, of course, very disappointed. All told him he would not recognize his former pupil.
"easier encourage others to become heroes as going to get killed, "the professor
How selfish to tell his brother: you will die so I'm happy! Is not this whole war and this calculation is not it scary skeleton you hide under the guise of honor, military duty, sacrifice?
[Aime Henri Gauthé soldier 2nd class, from his war diary]a "bunch of soldiers not old enough to wear the stuff. "
Annoyed by the ungrateful attitude of some and hitting all others by its special way of seeing the war, Bäumer decides to shorten his stay the Vaterland. Upon his return to the front, he would learn from the mouth of Tjaden them apart from all former and Katczinsky had disappeared and that his company was now made
Then he would start looking for Katczinsky absent at these reunions. But when these two met, they would have just enough time to warm the homes of common memories, since a tiny piece of shrapnel had come from nowhere, becomes lodged in the minds of old timers. die by chance, on a nasty twist of fate ... The way he was killed, he must really believe it's destiny. The shells fell maybe 100 meters away from us, a small chip barely bigger than a grain of corn struck him on the forehead and the blood gushed ... [Joseph Gilles, in a letter dated May 1916. Gilles Joseph will be killed the front less than four months after writing this letter by shrapnel]
Bäumer As for the soldier, who also was soon to die, it would be a butterfly that was her undoing.There is no longer green leaf or blade of grass, and yet in all this horror, a wonderful appearance: the a morning lark sings and multitudes of bugs buzzing around us and remind us that beyond this war, we must endure, there is still a wonderful spring, after we fought, we will still rejoice. [Christian Bordeching, a lieutenant in the German army, in a letter dated May 1916. Christian Bordeching be killed in the war in April 1917]
So, we can always philosophize about the presence of this beast in the gray room, for example fussy about his message or his poetry, but we need to do, when you can find its traces in the real fighters 14-18? Personally, I want to give voice to the furry ...
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