Saving Private Ryan
This movie thrusts you right into the intense battle of D Day right in the beginning. People are getting gunned down and blown up, and it's just really kind of disturbing. Medics are frantically running around trying to help people while at the same time being shot at themselves. Battle goes on and soon the Nazi troops are pushed back and the coastline is won over. During this battle two brother were killed, and they find out later that a third one was killed fighting the Japanese. There is one brother left out of this family. It becomes Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) and his men's job to find this brother, Private Ryan, and send him home.
They know that Private Ryan is somewhere in Normandy, but they're not exactly sure where. So Captain Miller's squad sets off to find him. They lose a soldier right off the bat when he tries to help a little girl. They find the outfit that Private Ryan is in and they tell him the bad news. Come to find this is the wrong Private Ryan. So their search continues.
On their mission the men get closer and closer and start to form a special relationship. They're love for one another is definately shown when they're medic is shot in the stomach and they're all gathered around him desperately trying to do what he is telling them to do in order to help him. His final order is to give him some morphine. The men all hold him as he slips away. The soldiers start to get a little worked up now, and one of them feels like losing their lives was not worth this one man's life. Captain Miller calms them down though, and they keep moving.
After while they finally find Private Ryan with a group of soldier defending a bridge in Ramelle. They tell him the bad news and that he is going to be sent home. He won't leave though. He says that he has no more right than any of the other men to be sent home, and he says that if he is to share the same fate as his brothers then at least it will be fighting along side the only brothers he has left. Captain Miller and his men decide to stay and help these men with their mission.
The last battle of the movie is when the German forces invade Ramelle. Even though the American troops are greatly outnumbered they still destroy these German troops, of course not without a few casualties of their own. One of these being Captain Miller. The end of the movie is a flashforward to present day and an elderly Private Ryan is thanking Captain Miller at hs grave site.
I thought this was a great movie, but very gory. It definately showed you the horrors of warfare. On the positive side of things, this movie also showed great loyalty and bravery even in the face of such terrible destruction.
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