Along with films like j'accuse (1919) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyps (1924) All Quiet on the Western Front is considered one of the earliest examples of an Anti-war film.
Two quotes are often brought up when talking about war films,
“There’s no such thing as an anti-war film,” is famously attributed to filmmaker François Truffaut, more precisely he said in a 1973 issue of the chicago tribune “Some films claim to be Anti-war, but I don’t think I have ever really seen an anti-war film. Every film about war ends up being pro war.”
The second is from steven spielberg talking about saving private ryan, who said “"Of course every war movie, good or bad, is an antiwar movie.”
But the morality of war is a nuanced thing, and so too is the morality of the war movie.
The truth is that most films lie somewhere on a spectrum ranging from pro to anti war.
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But what separates the two extremes?
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