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Dusty's wife Cass is enchanted with the potential future life path Morpho has printed for her, and begins exploring a change. The Morpho especially confuses main character Dusty, an affable high school history teacher, who up until the machine's arrival thought he was pretty happy with his run-of-the-mill suburban life. When Deerfield residents learn their supposedly true potentials, they begin questioning everything about their lives people begin making drastic life changes. For just $2 in quarters (and a fingerprint scan and a Social Security Number), anyone can 'discover their life potential.' The Morpho machine dispenses little blue cards that have job titles (like 'male model' and 'teacher'), identities ('biker'), and roles ('hero,' 'superstar,' 'liar') written on them. Scenes capture how single trenches get passed back and forth on the same fought-over land between opposing sides for years, and how the uniforms of the dead are practically yet cynically washed, sewn back up, and handed out to new recruits, with perished soldiers' names on labels ripped out and tossed to the floor.In THE BIG DOOR PRIZE, an arcade-style console mysteriously shows up in small town Deerfield's general store. End credits tell us almost 17 million people died in World War I, three million battling uselessly over the western front. 'Soon Germany will be empty,' one character says. The film has a clear theme of how little the lives of the young men seem to matter to some of the higher-ups, or to the enemy. Soldiers are killed, dismembered, exploded, set on fire, and sent into a last deadly battle just minutes before the armistice.

These are compared in overlapping scenes with the exquisite luxuries military leaders are afforded. Quiet is shot in grey, blue, and brown tones, and painstakingly conveys the soldiers' horrific, near-starvation, mud-caked, boot-soaked conditions. Newcomer Kammerer is excellent as the wide-eyed recruit who barely withstands each passing day of tragedy. A disquieting score relies heavily on single, melancholic beats that come and go with the action. Director Edward Berger and team have done a jaw-dropping job of choreographing battlefield scenes, shooting them often at eye level and embedded in the trenches, giving the viewer the impression of being in the mix.

The violence serves the story and its message. But those who do make it through this third film version (and the first in German) of the classic German novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, will be rewarded with a subtly humane tale of friendship, endurance, and the value of human life. Not every viewer will be willing or able to sit through two and a half hours of epic, bloody, graphically violent war reenactments. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly In the English subtitles, language includes 's-t,' 'hell,' 'damn,' 'bastard,' 'arse,' 'for Christ's sake,' and 'My God.'

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There's less salty banter between soldiers than in some other all-male films, though there's mention of 'dirty girls,' the 'Holy Virgin's thighs,' 'the clap,' a woman's breasts, and kissing a wife upon return from war. Official trailer Parents say (1) Kids say (2) ApSo cute and The whole family can watch This is a fun movie about twins switched at birth then come together because of a proposed business deal dealing with the town where they were born. Men smoke cigarettes and drink wine or other liquor. We witness it all through the eyes of a young recruit who transitions from enthusiasm to horror to guilt, sorrow, and resignation. The film shows death, mutilation, and psychological torture in close-up detail. In battlefield scenes, men are killed individually and in mass in grisly ways, from stabbings to amputations, from getting run over by a tank to being shot, exploded, set on fire, drowned in mud, gassed to death, and more. Parents need to know that this German-language adaptation of the class novel All Quiet on the Western Front is a gruesome, two-and-a-half-hour depiction of the horrific realities of war.

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