The Most Disturbing Black & White Movie Ever Made 

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Watching a blinded soldier scream in absolute fear of death while Wendigoon chows down on hummus is the most bizarre thing I've seen all week. Great video

Having WWI veterans basically recreate something traumatizing from their past was probably really weird. My great great grandfather faught in the trenches and whenever my grandfather asked him about anything related to WWI and the trenches, he’d get scary PTSD attacks and start hyperventilating. If someone’s trauma was triggered by even mentioning, I can’t imagine filming a movie about it.

I remember a MASH quote about War being worse than Hell because "There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander."

An absolutely heartbreaking detail I noticed during the scene where Paul reaches out for the butterfly over the trench was back when he was home, you could see pictures of butterflies hung up on the wall of his bedroom. Ngl it made me cry.

Soldier: *having a mental breakdown* Wendigoon: ☕️🗿

So sad to see that this is the last footage of Wendigoon before he got trapped in Sand Cave for 15 days straight, Internet Historian just talked about this tragedy

My great uncle fought in WW1, and smoking ironically saved his life. He was shot in the leg but the bullet pierced the tin cigarette box in his pocket and it slowed the bullet enough to protect his leg from any serious damage. He survived the war and lived to the ripe old age of 90 but when I think of what my grandparents’ generation went through it’s honestly mind boggling. My grandpa was a farmer by the time WW2 broke out and Canada didn’t draft anyone so thankfully he was exempt from service, but both him and my grandma lost so many for next to nothing. So harrowing to think about.

Another thing about cat i appreciate is how he says "it's happened to better men than you, and it's happened to me" Even more to how good a character he was

The ending shot haunts me to this very day. The single shot of all the soldiers looking wistfully back at their family overlaid over their inevitable outcome - a mass graveyard littered with crosses over people whose lives were completely shattered so lines on a map could be moved by an inch- is one of the most powerful images in all of cinema.

“One death is a tragedy, six million is a statistic.” I feel like that quote really speaks to how we as a people tend to look back on wars.

My dad was born in 1930. He talked about this movie a lot. I had watched a couple of WWII movies (The Longest Day, Midway) and he said I needed to watch All Quiet on the Western Front. It is an awesome movie. Thank you for your presentation. Oh, my dad is going to be 92 on Oct 29th.

This story broke me. I couldn't put the book down and I was horrified reading it throughout. It's one of those stories that after reading it, you just sit back or lie down and just stay still, letting everything that you just read sink in.

I learned about the book in German class (which is obviously like English class for native English speakers) and decided to read it. The ending has left its mark on me to this day. The book ends with Paul's death and the sentence 'Im Westen sei nichts Neues zu melden' (nothing new new to report in the west) from a military report, because one soldier dying means nothing to the war, even when it means an entire family will grieve this person for the rest of their lives. Remarque lost his German citizenship under the Nazi regime and the book was part of book burnings due to its horrifying depiction of war and its senselessness. I'm glad to say it's part of most history and/or German class curricula in German speaking countries.

The new Netflix adaptation of this film is extremely well done. It follows the original very closely and the acting is incredible. The scene where Paul kills a French soldier in hand to hand combat with a knife and is so traumatized that he starts to apologize to the dead body after finding a picture of the dead soldiers wife and daughter in his jacket is extremely sobering and sad...

Happy to see you finally got past all those copyright claims!

“it’s dirty and painful to die for your country. when it comes to dying for your country it's better not to die at all!” is by far my favorite quote of the movie and makes me think of behn, the first boy to die in the movie. he died blind and screaming and stumbling, in pain and so so scared. he didn’t die heroically or valiantly, he died horribly and with his friends mourning and feeling guilty over his death.

I watched this movie when I was 12! The last scene when he’s reaching for the butterfly is so depressing, especially considering the fact that Paul has a collection of pressed butterflies, (although Wendigoon doesn’t mention it.) Also, the scene when he’s in the classroom with his professor, and the professor is asking him to tell the young men in the classroom about how great the military is, and Paul just rants about how awful the war is.

Every time I was close to crying, I'd look in the corner. Surprisingly effective to look at a man eating hummus to pause a cry

I read this and the sequel “The Road Back” a few years after I got out of the Army. What struck me the most was even though there was almost 100yrs between me and the characters in the book how similar things were. The way they talk to eachother, the morbid humor, that feeling of alienation when you’re on leave or finally come home for good. It was creepy

As a german with an italian mother, most of the people in earlier generstions of my family had to fight in WW2. For example my great-grand uncle was one of the few soldiers to actually survive Stalingrad, and I can still remember my father saying a long time ago "when he came back, even his mother didn't recognise him" just made me realise how unimaginable the torment of War must have truly been, as even much later when he was home, he never talked about the war. Another one of my family members was a pilot in Africa, he sank an enemy ship by dropping a bomb onto it. What shook me is that I was told that to the end of his life (he died a couple years ago at an age of 90+), he still had nightmares of seeing the sailors on the ship jumping overboard in a futile attempt to save themselves. Many stories out there are left untold to this day, as the people who would be able to tell them would be over 100 years old now. We are at the end of an era where the great war becomes only a memory of a time long behind us, with nobody left to tell new stories.

This story is over a century old and there's still so much we can learn from it even today.

I recently watched the movie and I think another reason why people back then were so angry at the movie is because this shows that German Soldiers weren’t just caricatures they were living people who did not want to go through this war and were traumatized. It was easy for people to say “it’s ok what happened because they were the enemy” I know when I watched it I was so uncomfortable because I had that mindset of “it’s just the enemy” when yes they are the enemy they’re also people (if this doesn’t make sense my bad)

I read a Japanese manga series on world history as a child. The WWI chapters featured a young German soldier as sort of a POV character. One day he crawled out of the trench to pick a flower for his girlfriend back home, and got killed by a sniper. Many years later I watched All Quiet and realized what that part of the manga was based on.

One thing this movie really highlights is how much the Hays code set the industry back. Movies like this were really pushing the envelope and then the hammer came down for decades. Definitely a movie worth watching.

"His scream gets me everytime!" 😂 13:05 - literally emotionless in the corner

Here in Germany "Im Westen nichts neues" has been read in schools for years. Both my parents and grandparents had to read it. After I told them we dont read it anymore they were shocked because its been so impactful to them. So i really enjoy you bringin it to a probably younger audience.

Cat is the image of the good infantry NCO, taking care of his soldiers, keeping spirits high and leading by example In combat. His character always brings a tear to my eye.

Oh man I remember watching this for an entry level history class in my Undergrad and being left speechless by the ending. Incredible movie, can't wait to see you talk about it°

Man, this reawakened an old memory of high school. I watched this movie in 10th grade but I guess I repressed this movie because I remember being fascinated by the story but also deeply horrified as a 16-year-old. I completely forgot about watching this movie, glad you did a video on this.

It’s interesting that (to me personally) the most disturbing part of the movie is when Paul comes home. Him being a changed man due to his trauma and having to deal with the blissful ignorance of the people back home, plus basically all the scenes with his mother, are just gut-wrenching

2:47 Copyright Trouble 4:22 Out In Nature with a Magic Spoon *Fight For Glory, Be a Hero* 6:57 German Heroes March To War 8:12 Mothers, Fathers, Give Your Sons For National Glory 10:15 WE WANT TO BE HEROES OF HISTORY *Bootcamp* 11:25 Learning to fight 13:59 Young Recruits and Seasoned Soldiers together 16:11 Trench Warfare 17:26 Barbed Wire, Explosions KABOOM 18:30 MY EYES! MY EYES! 19:08 *The Valor Begins To Fade* - Rats beneath their feet - Several days without food - War Sucks 20:58 The Shelling ends, The French Approach - Hands hanging on a wire [If that ain't gruesome, there ain't gruesome] 23:32 Hand-To-Hand Bayonette Combat 24:55 2 Sides, Death Across The Field of Battle 26:10 Who wanted this War? 28:10 Amputation "You'll get better." *(whispers) I don't think so* 29:45 Cowardly Drill Sargent Himmel 31:59 Killing in a Foxhole 33:11 "Why should they set us out to fight each other?" - The actor who played the dying french soldier was mute 34:24 It's ok, it's not your fault, that's war. 35:44 Comedy character Jadin *Romance* 36:19 Bedroom 38:00 Hospital 38:52 Economic Collapse 39:17 Melancholy 41:33 Checking Out of War *Changed Man* 42:24 It took alot of brutality to get the message that War Bad 43:26 "I've been there, I know what it's like." "We used to think we knew." "What good is it?" "It's easier to say it than watch it happen." 45:47 Reuniting with War buddies 48:40 Cat 49:57 RIP *Author Eric's Connection* 50:25 Best Picture Best Director Banned In Germany 54:27 Poetry to summarize/re-emphasize the thesis 57:35 The Story and The Audience Live On 58:36 You are really cool. 58:57 Thank you for the support 1:00:29 SPOOKY SEASON Coming soon

I remember watching this movie as a 13 year old in high school. I am Polish, but I have come to live in Britain since I was 10, I have tons of stories about my relatives being killed in concentration camps, fighting in the war and so on. My great grandfather lived until he was 95, he died just 2 years ago from now but ever since he turned 60 something he experianced severe PTSD, Parkinsons, and so on, so much that the government had to compensate gim for the trauma. He also often talked about meeting Hitler but never in a clear manner since again he suffered major brain trauma. But it always surprises me how different people treat war here in the UK, almost like a medal of honour and glory, whereas I and many other Polish or Eastern Europeans only have terrible things to say about it. Of course there are also many contradicting stories from different countries with different sides and so on but I really will never understand how anyone can view war as a good, exciting, glorious thing. I guess maybe certain modern country leaders should re-watch this masterpiece of a movie and think about the impact war has on all of us day to day normal citizens. I do think movies these days have less and less meanings behind them and are more used for plain entertainment so honestly I would love to see more newer movies with such urgent messages in them too.

“War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.” -Niko Bellic

"passive aggressively eating hummus" is a phrase I never thought I'd hear but I'm absolutely loving the context and spite of it. Please continue with the great work and thank you for being willing to upload this EIGHT times

On my first deployment as infantry a teamleader in my squad was killed. He'd been taking the place of our squad leader who had been injured the mission before. When that happened the original squad leader broke, feeling like it should have been him. This always angry guy cried in front of me. Eventually our platoon sergeant said something to him that I'll always remember. "You can't take any of this personal, it's just war. They don't know you, you don't know them." This whole thing is very accurate to my memories of being a naive teenager in a situation I should never have been in.

Im german and we watched it as teenagers in our history class! It was a really impactfull experience and did a great job at visualizing not only the struggles of WWI but also how patriotism manipulated this poor young soldiers into throwing themselves into a meaningless war with no goal... for me this is a mustsee war film.

The fact that brutal military warfare is just going on and that Wendigoon is just standing there eating chips is hilarious to me

The reaching for the butterfly reminded me of this quote I saw at the museum in Hiroshima: "A dragonfly flittered in front of me and stopped on a fence. I stood up, took my cap in my hands, and was about to catch the dragonfly when..." And that quote stuck with me more than the creepy half-melted gore-y manniquins ever could. There's just something about those small simple actions being brutally interrupted by violence that makes it all the more terrifying.

It's movies like this that make me wonder, what would've happened if everyone, except the ones calling the shots, dropped their weapons and refused? And I mean everyone; every expendable person out there turned their guns away from the enemy and instead aimed at their leaders for such a heinous situation?

The Human Condition by Masaki Kobayashi deserves a mention as a movie made by a ww2 veteran who was anti-war, in fact he despised his service as he mostly guarded prison (and experiment) camps in manchuria, until apparently being sent to okinawa, where he was captured. There's something really harsh about how easily this person could have died and have his story forgotten, how many in fact did, how many more would have made movies and books if they had survived, etc.

I believe the great irony of this film is that it was an impactful antiwar film, but then less than a decade after its release the world plunged into the bloodiest war in human history.

Veteran here: My two cents may not be worth much, but I'll just say: My time in active war zones may have been hellish, but they were also made very bearable by the great friends I served with. The combat itself, of course, was atrocious. And living conditions were squalid. The food was often pure garbage. But the men and women I had by my side? By God did we have some good times. Even right after coming out of a skirmish we'd be cracking jokes and talking shit. Maybe it was a coping mechanism. Maybe we were broken from the start. I'm one of the lucky few who look back not on the bad times, but on the in-between moments. Playing Halo in the FOB, pissing in the XO's air conditioner, using the old helmet on a stick trick to check for shoddy snipers. Great times, great people.

Man when you talked about the story behind the shot of the hands on the barbed wire fence I was very close to just straight up bawling my eyes out. You put it so elegantly.

I think I’m gonna skip out on this book. Someone in the comments mentioned a scene about horses rolling in their own intestines and I think I’m good.

54:51 I'm currently in highschool and I can tell you that this man made history .Even now in the Caribbean that poem is renowned and studied in schools .I didn't pay much heed to it at first but given the context and details behind these words, it's become more impactful after reading it once more.

Bro really just threatened to murder his sponsors and is still being sponsored by them a year later. Respect

I read the book earlier this year, and the parts where Paul is home on leave still sticks with me. What one would assume would be a happy rest from war is just another alienating experience tainted by the horrors of war. I've had a fascination with WW1 for a while now, and while it's interesting to learn about the battles and development of technology and medicine, it's genuinely very depressing to be aware of the horrible toll this war took, both on life and on health, soldiers and civilians. It was such a pointless war

29:15 and also the stark contrast between the compassion shown for a corpse in the beginning, has been reduced to the utilitarian act of scavenging what was once held as precious. I think it is highlighting the dichotomy of compassion being a liability while utility and resourcefulness being the asset, especially when in dire circumstances. This video is very well done by the way!

Think: would we ever see a film like this from the perspective of the people in Iraq Iran or Afghanistan? That’s how the Americans of the 30s saw this move. It’s worth considering.

Damn. If it had been made just one year earlier you wouldn’t have to worry about copyright claims. All films made in ‘29 and before are public domain in the US.

I can’t imagine watching the actual movie, seeing a recap and even with the comedy of a man eating hummus in the background, it leaves you feeling so aware and it’s quite a lucid experience feeling so much for something you never experienced is a strange feeling, yet it has so much impact. I hope I don’t lose this any time soon since it’s a real good reminder and may even help me later, the idea of valor’s corruption is something we need more of.

3:00 yaaaaay, a big applause for youtube sucking so hard, it's the one and only thing you can rely on

Whenever I think about the deep transformations that soldiers went through because of the horrors of war, I am always reminded of the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti. His poems do not recreate these vivid images of the horrors of war like the movie or Dulce et decorum est, but more so still-frames with few essential elements and a clear emotional tone or thought associated to it. "Vigil" is one that comes to mind, due to both the horrifying scene it depicts as well as the ambiguity surrounding the consciousness of the poet as he lived through said scene.

A really disturbing movie I wanna see covered is "men behind the sun" pretty much about the Japanese experimentation on Chinese prisoners. Movie had an autopsie scene in it where surgeons dressed up as soldiers and filmed it. Very heart breaking film too

I can’t believe this movie came out before WW2. People saw this movie then a few years later experienced it themselves.

SO GLAD you're putting more eyes on this movie. So many people discount it because the acting seems dated to modern audiences, but I still think it's one of the greatest films ever made.

wow. i would never have thought such a brutal, realistic film about war even existed at that time. how can anyone watch the film and anything they could to avoid repeating such horrors. it's depressing to see that almost a century later, we still have not learned the lesson. it's a great thing you're doing making sure the story keeps being told. maybe we can get our shit together before we wipe our selves out of existence

I'm definitely reminded of _Saving Private Ryan_ right now, which kind of shows how the ideas of war have changed over time. _All Quiet_ was made less than 2 decades after WWI, and it's nothing but an all-too-realistic depiction of what the war was actually like for the entireity of its runtime. _Ryan_ was released over 50 years after WWII, and while it does open up with a 20-minute depiction of D-Day, the rest of the plot is somewhat detached from the war itself and only regains the clarity and realism of its opening scene in scattered moments. D-Day is shown just as horrible as the Western Front, but the film itself focuses on a group of heroes triumphing over villainy, which is the modern public perception of the whole war. Gritty, bloody, and horrible, yes, but also heroic, admirable, and honorable for those on the Allies' side. I'm sure those who actually lived through it would beg to differ-any amount of pride you could glean would likely seem trivial compared to the rest of the experience.

Kids in the 1950’s be like “yay I don’t have to read the book”

"That's not what one dwells on, Paul" is the line that really rattles me. This is horrific. Good on those filmmakers

Your "Soldier's Hands" concept has always been something I think about. Like, for every act witnessed, there's the chance at a memory being made, and in doing so; imortalizing that act beyond the individual. It's similar to the War Boy philosophy of "Witness Me!", as in committing an epic sacrificial blaze as your death is more visually impactful, increasing the chance others will preserve your memory beyond death. But this applies in more ways, like that random you said some crazy shot to at a party, that one person you really helped one time, someone you wronged; all will carry you with them. It's kinda one of the psychological reasons we want kids; they're a vessel to carry our memory.

It's depressing knowing that just a few years later so many would be dragged again into another even more horrifying war. I'm definatly gonna check out the original and remake when I get a chance, I remember being just speechless after watching Come and see.

"They dont have go to class anymore" later did they know, class is far far far better than be at war.

Having the nameless soldier's hands as your thumbnail just.....hits home. Especially after hearing how much it's imagery impacted you

I am currently studying modern history in my last year of school, and I just want to say that your video and presentation of everything is amazing. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to share this and go through all the issues with YT just to share this. It's great to inform people on these subjects. I commend you for teaching many, and even me on this movie. I can't believe that I had seen the new adaptation of this movie but never seen the original. So thank you again for sharing this. I am going to recommend it to many others :)

I remember reading this book as a junior in high school. The amount of times I cried and or just stopped mid sentence and had to walk away just to process my thoughts and feeling was more than any book I read before or since. This is one of the most heartbreaking, raw but most importantly true books I’ve ever read.

My history teacher in high school was a medic in Iraq and he was pretty left leaning (for someone from the military at that time). He still believed in the military and the ideals of it but he wasn't squeamish about talking about how horrible it was. Being a medic he had a ton of experience seeing the destruction it caused on young kids. He had tons of photos he took during his time and he would occasionally carve out the last 10 minutes of class to go through some of them and they were brutal. Like pictures of the wounded he treated, some of the dead. I remember some kid who was in ROTC was talking about how cool .50 cal is and that it was going to be fun when he gets to shoot it and teacher spent the last 10 minutes of that class showing us what a .50 cal bullet does to a human body, and that they aren't meant to be used on infantry but they often are anyway. I meant to continue this, but the frank view of warfare that was displayed in this movie is the same as the cold frank warfare I saw at 16 when I decided not to enlist. I hope to god that teacher knows somehow that he stopped me from either dying or killing unnecessarily.

i was gonna make a comment about watching my father suffer through PTSD episodes after his time in war, but two minutes after that thought i started bawling my eyes out. thank you for talking about this, its something that shouldnt be normalized anymore.

Knowing that Wendigoon is a gun fan really adds to the comedy of the Magic Spoon Ad because you know that's an actual shotgun he just pumped.

I read 'The Things They Carried' by O'Brien for an english class, and the depiction of the vietnam war without showing all the fighting is genuinely haunting. It shows what war does, rather than the fighting many people associate with it. It's many moments in between, and in particular I feel as though some moments in the book are horrifying beyond description.

The hands are so striking, and parallel Paul's hand dropping to the earth at the end. And then the boots... Hands and Feet. So human and strong and delicate

My father who was born in 1927 and passed away a few years back, loved the original all "All quiet." It was one of his favorite movies. He introduced it to me when I was young and I never really understood why it touched him as it did....until I was older. Then I got it. I highly recommend the book as well, but make sure to give yourself some time to reflect on it after you finish it.

I just have to say, Wendigoon, that this HAS to be my FAVORITE video you've ever made. It stuck so much with me long after I finished it, and I had never really known all the bits of the story of "All Quiet on the Western Front", but now, having heard about it from one of my favorite channels on RU-vid, I can wholeheartedly say I loved it. There were several points during the video where I actually started crying. I love old movies, and black and white films have always held a sort of dramatic darkness to them, and I definitely think that it added to the dreary atmosphere of the story. I always love to hear you geek out about film stuff and I love learning about new topics and pieces of media through you. Thank you so much for making this video, and please, continue making as many of these as you want. (I definitely won't complain lol)

So glad All Quiet on the Western Front had been getting more attention recently, it's such a good read and haunting to say the least.

An interesting and sad fact about this film, if he did not already mention it, is that this film pretty much did now air in Germany on release. As the SS or SA, i believe, went into yhw theaters and beat anyone who saw it. This leads to the government banning the film for fear of more attacks.

My favorite podcast, Behind the Bastards, covers more than a couple WW1 veterans. I think we as Americans truly don't appreciate the sheer horror and psychic damage that WW1 inflicted on an entire generation. The context of the horrors of this war is so important to understand what happened afterwards; the context of suffering in war in general is so important to understand why societies shift and change. Learn from the past, or be doomed to repeat it, etc.

I'm german and in my state every school has to got through this book at some point (I think it was 10th or 9th grade). I vividly remember reading the scene with Paul and the french soldier in the hole. I had to stop multiple times because I got physically sick as this was sort of the moment it really sunk in in my mind that these stories have happened to actual people. Maybe not these exact ones, but similarly for sure. It's great to see people outside of germany do it justice, especially someone who's as good at this sort of thing as Wendigoon.

“Why did we have to do this you and I?” “You just stabbed me in the fucking neck”

Magic spoon ad manager be like: - what a wonderful idea to sponsor a video about one the most horrific war book and movie!

"johnny got his gun" is also a great WW1 anti-war move.

the second i heard you mention wilson owen i knew exactly what poem you were going to read. it’s one of the best pieces i’ve read and absolutely haunting.

It's amazing they used their hunger to drive home the point, because particularly for German soldiers in WWI, one of the main causes of death was starvation and malnutrition due to the British blockade of the northern sea completely cut off Germany from the world, so even the citizens back home in Germany were starving during the war. That's just a great detail I'm glad they used.

''so many bodies that have their own stories to tell'' it also takes a special person to want to use that for other people to remember as well. there's some russian teenagers out there right now rotting on the side of the road eyesockets blackened and empty because the birds got their meal but i dont think a lot of people would find it inspirational it just makes you vomit in your mouth a little

I think this is the best anti-war movie ever made, especially for the time it was released.

As a German who read and discussed this in school it is very near to my heart. I always cry when I read it and I wanna thank you so much for covering it!

Man, you’ve found your thing dude! Definitely deserves a sub!

The thought of stabbing someone then spending hours with that person while he dies is so haunting and sad. I couldn't imagine anything more horrific or sad.

The fact that a nearly 100 year old movie has copyright issues is insane to me

the fact that Wendigoon was basically forced to be a reaction youtuber just to put this video out shows how much RU-vid caters to reaction channels

I like how Wendigoon says "he's so funny" and "this is highly entertaining" with a huge smile and in the clip he just continues to casually munch on hummus with no sight of entertainment on his face

Paul has a childhood collection of butterflies and him reaching for the butterfly at the end is really him reaching for the life he had before the horror of war. Really can’t recommend the film or book enough. Thank you for this, Wendigoon.

the fact that, when i was watching, i was interrupted by an army recruitment ad is... a cosmic level of situational irony. lord have mercy.

The screaming when Behm is blinded genuinely frightened me. This whole film is insane, especially for the time.

The part of the book that always stuck out to me is when Paul’s squad faces artillery fire while in a graveyard. Not only dirt was kicked up by the explosions, but pieces of wooden caskets and human remains rained down on them too

49:57 The fact that Paul’s death is offscreen and we only have his hand to show he died is soooo so much better than showing Paul die onscreen. To that sniper, Paul was just another German enemy to take care of. And on top of that, that hand could belong to any soldier (although we know it’s Paul), making him just another faceless casualty in a war he didn’t want. And that applies for all the soldiers; they’re just another casualty, another note to send to another family, another grave to dig, another hospital bed to empty and fill, another tick mark added to the death toll. 😭

"If it weren't for these uniforms we could have been friends you and I"...dude I'm actually starting to cry. What a powerful line. That whole scene makes me sick to my stomach

The absolute irony that the audience from so many countries all universally reacted to this film , in the same exact manner that the people in Paul’s town (teachers, students, etc) reacted to him saying “war is not what it’s been made out to be guys.” That in itself is satirical

Reminds me of the time in grade 12 where a woman came to speak to us about joining the military as a means to afford university education. Her daughter was a soldier that died (I don't remember where she died, what war etc). But I was absolutely disgusted by how this woman spoke so highly of war and the military, when it was what took away her daughter. So when we were leaving the auditorium, and other kids asked about signing up, I told her that I was so sorry for her loss. She legitamently looked at me like I had two heads.

The scene where he is asking forgiveness to a corpse is something that struck me in the soul, it is very sad as he begs something that can't answer. Truly a tragedy.