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Both writers have much sympathy for the soldiers from WW1 and share the same anger about the politics of the war and how the soldiers where treated and sent out as to there own death and the bitterness that the politicians showed and felt towards the war. Wilfred Owen and the writer of the movie both stress that war is a futile waste of life in both the poem and the movie. For example in the poem ‘Futility’ by Wilfred Owen he has lines, that clearly explain the waste of war such as, “The death of the soldier and the futility of hoping the sun can bring him back to life.” In the movie it also clearly shows war is a waste in many ways such as Paul carrying kat, who was dead from the explosion but Paul doesn’t know. Also in the bomb hole when he stabs the Frenchman, and then speaks his mind by saying that they could have been best friends, and that all this war has done is changed that and made them enemies, “We could have been brothers, but they don’t want us to know that.” The poems and movie both show that the authorities treated the soldiers like disposable