Review Of "Saving Private Ryan"
Saving Private Ryan must be one of the greatest war movies of all
time. Before going to watch the movie, I had heard that the first twenty
minutes of the film were so breathtakingly realistic that one may not be
able to finish the movie. My favorite movie genre is war movies, so I
figured this would be a great film since it was directed by Spielberg. The
systems of this film are amazing. Saving Private Ryan has so much that one
could probably write a long time about this work of art. The thematic,
narrative, mise-en-scene, sound, and a major twist of realism make this
film the classic that it has become.
Saving Private Ryan opens and closes with an identical image--an
American flag, ...
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between national pride and blind nationalism, Spielberg makes
his film by insisting on visualizing an overwhelming sorrow at the loss of
so much human life, and a similarly gratitude for the sacrifices that have
been made. The flag in this certain frame represents everything worth
fighting and living for, however, it doesn't tell the whole story. Its
mere presence in the frame insists that something else, perhaps something
still more important, remains behind.
That "something else" may be America as a concept, the United
States as an abstract entity worth dying for on the gruesome earth of
another's land. The characters that Spielberg follows through the film
spent time openly debating the validity of their missions. They run the
numbers in a certain kind of math that counts lost human lives against the
number of lives thus saved, justifying the good the death can serve.
If war strategies are mathematical, then Saving Private Ryan's
opening is the epitome of ...
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picture. With this in hand, the taking of Normandy
is an important part of the tour, and therefore, its showing is not out of
sense.
As I mentioned, the film is not about the plot. It is about the
war in Europe, and more deeply, about the value of human life. The film
follows Miller from his landing at Normandy to the fields of northern
France. From the rainy town threatened by a sniper to the wreck of an
American plane. From an isolated nest of German machine-gunners to the
rubble-strewn bridge in need of defending, the soldiers are finding out
what life is all about. In each episode, Spielberg finds a way to explore
the value of American life.
At Normandy, one soldier suggests ...
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