Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan
Cinema Release Date: September 30, 1998
Film already available on DVD since: May 13, 2008
Directed by Steven Spielberg
With Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, more
Genre: War Drama
Time: 02h43min Production Year: 1998
Distributor: United International Pictures (UIP)

                                             Saving Private Ryan

Synopsis：3 boys in the Ryan family of 4 died in combat during the WWII. The purpose of Tom Hanks is to find the fourth to make it safely to his mother.

I think I'm starting to hate what I call "the Hollywood war movies." You know those American flags fluttering shot at close range, the action scenes in slow motion, where the soldiers sacrificed themselves. It takes a long time to cut a long monologue before they are died. It is so horrible  that the syrupy music makes us crazy. And unfortunately, they are all here in this film. The pinnacle was reached while he was reading a letter from Abraham Lincoln, a true American idol in the history of the United States. Accompanying with the music, it only tells us a sign of "cry please," which is so terrible.

But fortunately there is one thing that escapes everything to express the patriotism of the American soldiers: the fight scenes. Filmed mostly handheld camera for the viewer to feel the shock of the bombs, they prove to be ultra realistic, sparing no detail to our awful eye: mangled limbs, entrails apparent hole in the head ... so awful!

                                          Saving Private Ryan Trailer

The technical effects are bluffing. Besides using it in a single scene of the subjective camera, it shows perfectly the feelings of a soldier landing in Normandy. Some plans are strictly hallucinating. For example, when defending the bridge, it sends a grenade, its effect (explosion, black smoke) and its consequences (the sight of German soldiers escaping from the fire in the dust), constitutes the technical point of view above all, which gives us a pretty astonishing feat.

                                          Saving Private Ryan Omaha Beach

It is lacking an attachment to the characters from the perspective of an audience (except perhaps Tom Hanks). The absurdity of a war here obeys to no law.

In the end, we probably have liked it and enjoy ourselves through watching it. It is so realistic a movie on battle scenes that I do like it very much.