Windtalkers
Windtalkers is a World War Two movie about a man named Joe, Nicolas Cage, who gets wounded wounded while fighting. He loses a lot of hearing in his ear, and it becomes a great pain for him. Joe is still determined to get back to the war, and has a nurse help him pass his tests to get him back in.
His new mission is to protect a Navajo named Yahzee. Yahzee is discriminated against a little because he is Native American. What the soldiers don't realize is that he is of great importance. The Navajo language becomes a code the Navajo's use over the radio.
Joe, Yahzee, and another Navajo get sent to be put into combat with a group to the island of Saipan, Japan. Here they use the Navajo's to speak their coded language over their radios to Ships and Planes. The messages are decoded in bases and give out the area of the battle. The ships or planes then target the specified area and shoot that area immensely. This gets rid of the Marine's (code name: Windtalkers) battle and defeats the Japanese in that area.
The reason the Navajo's get assigned a soldier to protect them is because, if a Japanese were to capture one of the Navajo's they'd be in trouble. Japan's Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo, declared that if you capture a Navajo, you are to torture them, until they render you the code. A few Navajo's had been caught, but were beaten to death.
In battle, Joe first doesn't trust Yahzee to do much, and makes him follow him around most of the time. Their first battle was successful, when the Navajo's gave out the area after fighting for awhile and giving away the area of the enemies base, a ship disintegrated it from the coast. The troop celebrates that night, and prepare for another battle in the morning.
My favorite part of the movie had to be when Yahzee broke his backpack, which he uses to give out the codes. At the moment they were trying to get to their own base, and were being attacked by fellow Americans. They disguised Yahzee like a Japanese and traveled to the Japanese's radio area. Joe protected Yahzee while he took over the radio and was able to tell the American base to cease fire on them and the area of the Japanese, allowing them to take down the Japanese area just as they fled.This scene helped Joe accept and confide in Yahzee better.
The rest of the movie consisted of winning battles using the code, then residing in a small town. It surprised me that the Japanese citizens and the soldiers were able to cooperate together in a town and even help each other out. After being in the town for awhile thought, the soldiers got bombarded by the Japanese. They took out citizens, and eventually got a hold of the other Navajo. Joe, thinking fast had to kill the Navajo. Killing him, made Yahzee so upset, he almost killed Joe.
Later, they discover the Japanese have a base located in a hard to get to area. To get there, the troop had to walk to land mines. The mines killed much of the troops, and when they finally overcame them, they were then attacked with heavy artillery. This made them lose yet more troops, and it seemed eminent that they were going to lose this battle. Joe and Yahzee persisted and made it closer to the area. Eventually they gave out the location over their radios, but it seemed help wouldn't come.
Trying to get back, both of them got shot. Joe continued on, carrying Yahzee. In the end, Joe and Yahzee made it to a safer area. It was there that Yahzee realized Joe had been shot in the chest, and was only able to exchange a few words before Joe eventually passed away.
Yahzee made it back to his reservation a hero, and named his second son after Joe. He had a Navajo ceremony with his wife and two sons on the top of a hill where he gave his second son Joe's tags. This movie was based off of true events.
I thought this movie was a great one that taught me more about the world war two that I didn't know. It had good graphics, that help you realize how much many soldiers really had to go through. I would recommend this movie for any other student, or not student, to watch.
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