Miracle at St. Anna
The movie starts with a scene in the big NYC in the winter. Some Puerto Rican war vet, Hector Negron, is working as a clerk in a post office, and when helping a customer, he just randomly shoots the guy. Some investigators show up and demand information. They check the clerk's house, and they find many war awards and a piece of a bridge that was destroyed by the Nazis in WWII. They ask him "why?"
Movie cover. or something
Flashback time (you knew it was bound to happen). The first scene is in Italy, where Negron and other Puerto-Ricans (along with African-Americans) are based. They call in an attack on their own position when there is a discrepancy on how far along they have patrolled. After this, Negron and three blokes get stuck on the wrong side of the river. Train, an appropriately named black man, finds an Italian boy named Angelo, who was crushed by a roof when an explosion caved in the building. Together, they all travel through the mountains only to find a small village, and they befriend some on the peoples. After they finally get their radio working, they order someone at their headquarters to find a German soldier to capture to question regarding any counter-attacks.
Instead, they find a deserter of the German Forces. One of the people that found the deserter killed him, as the deserter was the only one that knew he had betrayed his infantry earlier in the war. When the leader of the group confronts him, he panics and shoots him to and flees the crime scene.
This is Train and Angelo. TRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAIN. Love that name
This is where I'm going to have to cut you off. Now that anyone reading might have a taste, you need to go out and watch this to see the ending, which is kind of a twist, yet also somewhat predictable having regarded the beginning. This movie was pretty good. I wouldn't watch it again, not a huge fan of war movies. This movie depicts all the more reasons I would never want to be in any war. ever.
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