Remarque’s novel seems to draw a line between subjective and objective points-of-view. While the book’s final page declares that “the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front,” the rest of the book shows that the Great War was anything but quiet for the people fighting in it (Remarque 291).
The following link is to a website called Hometown Baghdad, set up by a team of documentary filmmakers. If you click on the “VIDEOS” link in the top menu, there will be a series of video clips by the filmmakers. The video clips record the lives of three men living in Baghdad during the Iraq War. I think that in a way, these video clips are a 21st century version of what Remarque did with his novel: they show war from a subjective point of view. Some of the videos are very graphic.
(post courtesy of Elizabeth Kirchoff, English 2159-002 Spring 2011)
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