Saving Private Ryan
At the beginning of the movie an older man is staring at one of the white cross shaped grave markers. He then has a flash-back to D-Day. The fighting at Normandy starts and is gruesome. The captain who we follow throughout the whole movie somehow makes it to safe grounds, but losses many men in doing so. He then takes a look at the blood stained beach behind him, and we are given a close up on one body. The body says "Ryan" on the back. In the next scene we see the letters being written to those who have lost loved ones on the battle field. It has come to the attention that the young man with the last name Ryan was one of four brothers. All his other brothers were also killed in combat except one. The head military guy said that the should find private James Ryan so that the mother doesn't have to loose all of her sons. The assignment is given to the same captain, captain Miller, and he takes along 8 soldiers. They come across German forces on their journey to find private Ryan and Captain Miller losses two of his men. When they find Ryan he refuses to go home. He does not want to abandon his fellow soldiers who are maintaining control over a vital bridge in Germany. Captain Miller agrees to help them keep control of the bridge. When the Germans come in with tanks the battle gets ugly. In a last resort, they blow up the bridge. Unfortunately some Germans made it across the bridge and Captain Miller is shot. Just as a tank is heading towards him during his last seconds, American air force planes drop bombs designed to take out tanks. The German troops surrender and Americans regain control of the bridge. Captain Miller passes away but tells Private Ryan to "earn it." I think he meant earn what he did for him by living the best life he can. The flash-back is then over and we now find out that the older man is Private Ryan and he is standing at Captain Miller's grave. He talks to the grave and says he has tried to live his best and thinks he has. The movie is over after this scene.
I enjoyed in this movie. While it was gruesome and long, it was a great story and was very eye opening to what war is. The D-Day scene was probably my favorite because it was very real.
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Good job Maggie!