{"id":23780,"date":"2023-03-29T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23780"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:36:21","slug":"nics-flicks-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-engaging-stunning-haunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/03\/29\/nics-flicks-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-engaging-stunning-haunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic’s Flicks<\/em>: All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em> engaging, stunning, haunting"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Quiet on the Western Front
\n<\/i>3.5\/4<\/p>\n

One of the most interesting movies that Netflix has ever made is Edward Berger\u2019s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque\u2019s classic anti-war book All Quiet on the Western Front<\/i>. Thanks to sweeping cinematography, a haunting musical score, and faithfulness to its beloved source material, this movie is a masterpiece that very much deserves the numerous Oscar nods it\u2019s received.<\/p>\n

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I loved the screenplay, which is by Berger, Ian Stokell, and Lesley Paterson. These writers do a beautiful job in making their writing stay true to Remarque\u2019s anti-war themes while adding their own modern touch to the material. A great example of staying true to Remarque\u2019s writing is how the film shows the politics of war and how willing politicians were to let World War I just roll on while they sat at home. Scenes like that really make the movie for me. Also, Berger\u2019s direction does a great job at getting the best out of his actors, as well as interpreting his own unique ideas to the film. I felt personally offended that he wasn\u2019t nominated for best director\u2014he does that good of a job.<\/p>\n

Also, the acting is spellbinding. This is particularly true with lead actor Felix Kammerer. He plays Paul B\u00e4umer, a young high-school student who enlists in the German army after being told that war is like one big adventure, but he\u2019s forced to learn the hard way about the brutal nature of war.<\/p>\n

Through his brilliant performance, Kammerer conveys his character\u2019s anger at the war. This makes the viewer really believe that this actor has gone through all of those horrible things that he went through in the movie. The supporting cast does a great job in their roles but Kammerer really is the standout performance of the whole movie.<\/p>\n

I also want to mention James Friend\u2019s stunning cinematography and Volker Bertelmann\u2019s haunting musical score. Friend\u2019s cinematography is stunning and totally immersed me into the setting of World War 1. Bertelmann\u2019s score is also fantastic and really gives the audience a very unsettled feeling about the war it\u2019s portraying. These two men should start making room on their mantles\u2014they\u2019re now my top picks to win in their categories.<\/p>\n

The only thing I didn\u2019t enjoy about this movie is the choice to make it streaming. I mean, come on, man: this movie cries out to be seen on the big screen.<\/p>\n

All Quiet on the Western Front<\/i> is an engaging ride for audiences\u2014it showcases what makes Remarque\u2019s work so memorable but also explores its own version of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All Quiet on the Western Front 3.5\/4 One of the most interesting movies that Netflix has ever made is Edward Berger\u2019s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque\u2019s classic anti-war book All Quiet on the Western Front. Thanks to sweeping cinematography, a haunting musical score, and faithfulness to its beloved source material, this movie is a masterpiece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-march-22-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23781,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions\/23781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}