Plenty to unpack there, and I’m sure I’ve missed most of it.
“Social-democrats that sold out the country”. French unwilling to negotiate and forcing a humiliating treaty. I had to check to make sure that the original book wasn’t written well after World War 2. But no, 1929. Now we can say that “the writing was on the wall”.
A lot of symmetrical shots. And some still nature shots as well. We can kill each other, and life will go on, maybe?
A lot of closeups, especially of Kat and Paul, but also others.
Kat’s monologue on not rather not returning home and eating potatoes with his comrades sounds relevant to this day (see Hurt Locker and American Sniper, for example).
Note how much attention is dedicated to food: Kat sharing bread with Paul on the first day, the joy of stealing a geese, eating French food while their corpses are still warm.
The scene with tanks and flamethrowers looks so alien, that even “Dune” seems closer to us than this. Yet this is historically true.
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