In fact, the two films are within expectations, no matter how heavy, how connotative and skillful are Eastwood fans, or how dull, confusing, and one-sided those people who don't like say. There is no shock component, no cultural shock component, and no enlightening content. You can read the beginning to know the end. Originally, it is a story narrative that restores the details of historical events and then adds values.
But it's easier to understand the two films together. Otherwise, the Japanese lost too easily in the Iwo Jima letter, and the Americans died too miserably in the banner of the fathers. Of course it is a fact that the death is much more tragic. The Battle of Iwo Jima was indeed the meat grinder of the Pacific War.
It is only by simply appearing from the fleet on the sea and the machine guns quietly sticking out of the bunker, so that the two films complement each other in the details involved in both sides, so that the two films can be watched like an outsider. It seems that the cause and the result of the war are only related to these two countries.
The American soldiers landed on the beach and wondered why there were no gunshots. At this time, Ririn said, wait, it's not time to shoot.
When the American soldiers spit fire into the bunkers from the flags, the Japanese soldiers in the family letter screamed and escaped, or they were burned to death in the tunnel.
Ira walked into the dark bunker and saw the Japanese soldiers who had been bombed into a pile of organs. At that time, Nino and the others had already started to retreat after everyone else had committed suicide.
Iggy disappeared suddenly. When Nino and the others were walking in the aisle, they saw a few Japanese soldiers stabbed to death American soldiers begging for mercy. It was probably a similar incident.
Ira watched the captives beheaded by the Japanese on the ship, and shortly after this, the American soldiers also killed Ryo Kase, who had surrendered.
These are the absurdities of war, and the convenience of making two movies in a row.
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