But I already knew that the movie was well received . , I had less expectations, and in the end I thought it was better than the average war movie. In fact, the war scenes were not as much as expected, and they were not too violent, which was acceptable.
Director Clint Eastwood, and executive producer Steven Spielberg, the script was written by William Broyles Jr.("Jarhead ", "Unfaithful", "Cast Away" and "Apollo 13") and Paul Haggis (director and screenplay for the film "Crash"), based on the original novel of the same name by James Bradley and Ron Powers, and a few more experienced The actors, and the rhythm of the movie are quite compact, although there are many splicing techniques interlaced in time and space, but it is not too confusing.
Located in the Iwo Jima statue (US Marine Corps War) in Arlington, Virginia, next to Washington (DC), USA Memorial) visited twice many years ago, but did not know much about the battle, the many soldiers on the monument and the ins and outs. This film clearly records the history and the story behind this monument.
As a director who supports the Republican Party , Clint Eastwood's film has always been regarded as pro-war, but after watching the film, I don't think he is on the pro-war side. And there are many annoying political tricks behind the war, especially politicians. For that flag, the soldier has to plant a second one, which leads to the awkward debate of "who is the real hero of the flag?"; and politicians force the soldiers to continue the endless process in order to raise more war bonds fundraising show.
As the narrator in the movie (Son of a Soldier) said, there are no heroes in the world, "heroes" are what we create, what we need. (Heroes are something we create, something we need.)
As one of the male protagonists, John "Doc "Bradley's Ryan Phillippe (who just divorced his wife, Reese Witherspoon) finally has a bigger movie to work on, and maybe one day he'll get rid of the "much more expensive" critique (though they're separated). As Ralph " Iggy" Ignatowski is indeed Jamie Bell, who played the lead actor in "Billy Elliot" many years ago. Mike Strank is played by the good-natured Barry Pepper, who has participated in many war films such as "Saving Private Ryan", and "Enemy of the State" And "The Green Mile".
In addition, in terms of the picture, the war part is deliberately a little gray close to black and white, I think the movie hopes to give people the feeling of real and World War II, but I personally think that the gray color can be made better.
Even if you don't like watching war movies, you can consider watching it.
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