From the first scene: a flag billowing in the wind, to the last: the same, Private Ryan moves us in a way no other has, with images.
Intense images. Between those beginning and ending flags is perhaps the most turbulent, hard-hitting, lasting epics ever created. It will make you want to close your eyes, but it's hard to do. It will make you want to just get away, any way you can. And some will, during the course of the first thirty-minute-long 'storming' scene at least four people fled out of the theater. Honestly, you can't blame 'em. This proves the need for a movie such as this, not enough people fully understand war, and this is as close as it comes to being there.
I can still vividly remember images from the movie, as if they had been pressed into my brain; soldiers with no limbs, limb with no soldiers, men of maybe eighteen, losing their life on the bloody battlefield that was Omaha. The camera weaving in-and-out of the battle, explosions rocking the flanks, blood and dirt launching itself thirty feet high.
No movie before has explored the war the same way, and none may ever do so again. With hand-held cameras jostling in almost the same way a soldier might, a confused look, and the already mentioned images. If another movie does explore war like this one, should I witness it again? First was quite enough. Though I say this, I am glad I went. It shows you horrors more than a horror movie, and the gore seems much more real -- no, not the gore effects, the way the gore happens, the people are real, not a pawn -- more affecting.
Not only was the directing amazing -- perhaps Spielberg's best -- the acting was great too. The characters seemed all too real, and, being real, they hurt like real people. Surprising, then, that none of these actors won an award.
But not as surprising as the Best picture winner. How can a movie, which basically didn't affect my evening beat a movie that affected my life -- as far as war goes, anyway -- win? Got me. Maybe the voters got sick and couldn't finish watching Ryan, which just says too me the effectiveness of it.
In conclusion, Ryan may be classified as the greatest war movie ever created, and must be remembered for the most horrific images ever put upon the screen.
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