What the film doesn't talk about

The curious thing about this film is what it does not say and what it does not show. In the comment above, someone talks of a 'young soldier' who meets other 'individuals' but Adrien - and it is emphasised not only in the title but continually in the film - is a 'young officer' and the individuals he meets are other young officers. What on earth was the fate of the ordinary soldiers similarly wounded? This thought nagged when I saw the film but is even more apparent on a second viewing. Early in the film the difference in the treatment is strongly emphasised but only ever the once. Anais talks of the crowded conditions 'downstairs', of the wounded continually arriving, of their not knowing where to put anyone. And the camera pans back to show the empty beds in the chambre des officiers where Fournier is at that point seemingly the only patient. Yet there, in a sense, the subject remains. This 'downstairs' of which one gets the briefest glimpses later in the film would scarcely seem to offer the same emotional scope (for self-pity or self-development) as the upstairs on which the film focuses and one wonders (while knowing full well what the answer must be) if its occupants received the same degree of care or had a right to the same long convalescence. Since the subject is never explicitly invoked it remains as a curious and disturbing question-mark in the viewers' minds. Although evidently not all viewers.....