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Flags of Our Fathers

By Nick Hodge | November 3, 2006

Liam and I returned from the new Clint Eastwood directed movie, Flags of Our Fathers.

It is less physically intense than Saving Private Ryan, as it tells the stories of the men surrounding the raising of the US Flag over Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in February 1945.

The movie capably tells this story; and to a lesser extent the bonds between men thrown together under intense circumstances. The story is historically accurate, as is Band of Brothers. Represented to a greater accuracy is the psychological legacy war leaves.

A wry quote from Neal McDonough to Barry Pepper: "We've done this before". Neal was in Band of Brothers and Barry in Saving Private Ryan.

Stay for the credits: actual photographs are shown; and detail how close the real film is to reality.

Update, 9:20pm Watched Saving Private Ryan to contrast the two movies. Spielberg is a true artist. Whilst the two stories are different, one being based on actual people; the sound, vision and cinematography of Saving Private Ryan is a league ahead.

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Topics: history, movie, personal |

One Response to “Flags of Our Fathers”

  1. Andrew Lockley Says:
    January 2nd, 2007 at 10:54 am

    See this other interesting review backing up your point of view:

    http://worldwar2database.com/html/flagsofourfathers.htm

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