Last night, I watched "Saving Private Ryan" starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon.
The movie starts out with and old man and his family at the Arlington National Cemetary, where soldiers are buried. He stops at one grave and has a flashback, which becomes the movie.
The flashback starts with Captain John Miller and his troops on Omaha Beach. They are shooting and being shot at by the Germans. Many of the soldiers die, including one named Ryan.
There were Four brothers in the War, the Ryans. Three of the four died in battle, and the youngest one, James, is still out there. He got dropped of somewhere far away and Captain Miller and eight soldiers are sent out to find Ryan and return him home to his mother.
Along the way, There is a German family begging for help, and Private Caparzo, played by Vin Diesel, obeys the fathers request and takes the girl from them despite Captain Miller's orders to not do so. Caparzo ends up getting shot and dies with a note for his father in his hand.
The men continue on. They find a base where they have been told James Ryan is located. Captain Miller sits down with Ryan and tells him his brothers have died. Ryan is really upset and confused saying his brothers are still in Grammar school. They found the wrong Ryan. They leave the base and continue on.
They later on find many dead bodies and remove the tags from them. They search through the tags to see if Ryan's is among them. Captain Miller asks marching troops if they know Ryan. One partially deaf ma knows him and says they were on the same drop off flight and directs them to him.
Later, they are threatened by the Germans once more. This time, another one of their men, Wade, gets shot multiple times. he is dying on the ground and begsfor morphine, which is given to him and then he dies.
They keep going and find the base Ryan is at. They make sure he is the correct Ryan then tell him all of his brothers have died and he must go home ot his mother. He protests saying that everyone of these men have fought as hard as him and all deserve to go home, so he will not leave his remaining "brothers" and his mother will understand. One of the soldiers gets angry and tells Ryan that they've lost two men on their way to save him and he must go with them. They fight but Ryan goes with.
They come to an abandoned village where the Germans are going to attack. They sit around and wait for them. When they arrive, they go into a long battle which many of them men died, including Captain Miller. The movie then cuts to Private Ryan present day, for the movie, who is in the Arlington National Cemetary over Miller's grave. He tells Miller that he is thankful of him.
I was kind of tired at the end, so I don't remember it completely.
I am not much into war movies, so it wasn't the most enjoyable movie ever, but it had a surprisingly good story to it. It's still not as good as everyone says it to be, but I do believe it helped with my understanding of how hard World War II was for the soldiers.
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