Review of Movie “flag of Our Fathers”Essay Preview: Review of Movie “flag of Our Fathers”Report this essayReview of movie “FLAG OF OUR FATHERS”As we all know, the WWII was consider to be the biggest battle in human history. It was a catastrophic war that began in 1939 and ended in 1945 between the Allies and the Fascists. The WWII happened on two main frontiers, the European Frontier and Pacific Ocean. In February 1945, the Allies won the wars on the European Frontier while the war on the Pacific continued. One of the most brutal and bloody battles was the battle over Iwo Jima. Five marines and a military surgeon were sent up to the highest hill, the Suribachi peak, to raise the winning flag. Six American men at the foot of the flagpole immediately became heroes. But behind the flashy scene is a story full of humanity and also very grim. The movie “Flag of our fathers” tried their hardest to recreate this historical event.
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An article in the New York Times said, “U.S. soldiers will never forgive or forget their experiences in WWII. Instead, the military has become a battleground for the anti-American movement while the American people have become a war zone. And to some extent, the Americans have suffered because of this. But as they move past this historical moment more and more troops are pouring into the U.S.” In a press release it was said, “The battle over the Iwo Jima has gone on for the better part of two decades.” It is not yet true that the war was a bloodbath, but that the men in the Marines and military surgeons who were sent up to a hill in the Suribachi peak were given medals and honor. I cannot help but wonder if the American public will look back at the events in 1940 and look at what it is like today. They will wonder. But it is a very different story. The American people are deeply troubled by the fact that the United States, under this new administration, has taken a brutal policy, but that does not mean it will allow American soldiers to be treated as second class citizens. In my own view, the past couple of years have been an incredibly tumultuous. I have known President Truman since I was young. He has often seen as his best friend the brave men and women of Air Force Special Staff and Air Force General Staff who participated in the Pearl Harbor tragedy in 1945. But, during the war they have also served in our ranks together. What we did not see from Truman was who truly stood up for peace. These are the heroes he has fought at his best. It is a small price to pay for the American people’s resolve that we take this forward. When the American people were first asked to forgive the British and their policies from 1939-1945, they didn’t seem entirely ready to do it. If Truman had spoken, we would not have been able to see this conflict of hatred and conflict in an American context. The American people understood the magnitude and meaning of this war when it started and so they gave an overwhelming vote of no confidence to its end. They felt a sense of betrayal for the country, and a sense it was at war but it was a war of conscience and courage. There may be some other reasons behind this vote, but I am sure it cannot be seen that way. What made us think it was possible for the United States to go to war was not because of some misguided desire to please its own soldiers nor its own leaders but because because of the sheer size of the American military. The war was so great because of the strength of the American people being able to go out to the hills to fight it, to see the devastation of this devastation and then stand and support the soldiers we went to see when they were wounded by enemy fire. What made the Americans go to war was that most of the young Americans we sent up at 1,000 were older and less experienced than us. They were trained at home, learned at the military academies, and they received jobs on the front lines. They were trained as volunteers and, with the assistance of a handful of trained military doctors and surgeons, were trained to help these wounded warriors recover. This allowed them to do work that was only fair. The men who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor were not just men we helped during WWII, but also men who had gone to work to do the right thing. The American people knew this and they recognized this and they did not try to prevent it. They held
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An article in the New York Times said, “U.S. soldiers will never forgive or forget their experiences in WWII. Instead, the military has become a battleground for the anti-American movement while the American people have become a war zone. And to some extent, the Americans have suffered because of this. But as they move past this historical moment more and more troops are pouring into the U.S.” In a press release it was said, “The battle over the Iwo Jima has gone on for the better part of two decades.” It is not yet true that the war was a bloodbath, but that the men in the Marines and military surgeons who were sent up to a hill in the Suribachi peak were given medals and honor. I cannot help but wonder if the American public will look back at the events in 1940 and look at what it is like today. They will wonder. But it is a very different story. The American people are deeply troubled by the fact that the United States, under this new administration, has taken a brutal policy, but that does not mean it will allow American soldiers to be treated as second class citizens. In my own view, the past couple of years have been an incredibly tumultuous. I have known President Truman since I was young. He has often seen as his best friend the brave men and women of Air Force Special Staff and Air Force General Staff who participated in the Pearl Harbor tragedy in 1945. But, during the war they have also served in our ranks together. What we did not see from Truman was who truly stood up for peace. These are the heroes he has fought at his best. It is a small price to pay for the American people’s resolve that we take this forward. When the American people were first asked to forgive the British and their policies from 1939-1945, they didn’t seem entirely ready to do it. If Truman had spoken, we would not have been able to see this conflict of hatred and conflict in an American context. The American people understood the magnitude and meaning of this war when it started and so they gave an overwhelming vote of no confidence to its end. They felt a sense of betrayal for the country, and a sense it was at war but it was a war of conscience and courage. There may be some other reasons behind this vote, but I am sure it cannot be seen that way. What made us think it was possible for the United States to go to war was not because of some misguided desire to please its own soldiers nor its own leaders but because because of the sheer size of the American military. The war was so great because of the strength of the American people being able to go out to the hills to fight it, to see the devastation of this devastation and then stand and support the soldiers we went to see when they were wounded by enemy fire. What made the Americans go to war was that most of the young Americans we sent up at 1,000 were older and less experienced than us. They were trained at home, learned at the military academies, and they received jobs on the front lines. They were trained as volunteers and, with the assistance of a handful of trained military doctors and surgeons, were trained to help these wounded warriors recover. This allowed them to do work that was only fair. The men who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor were not just men we helped during WWII, but also men who had gone to work to do the right thing. The American people knew this and they recognized this and they did not try to prevent it. They held
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An article in the New York Times said, “U.S. soldiers will never forgive or forget their experiences in WWII. Instead, the military has become a battleground for the anti-American movement while the American people have become a war zone. And to some extent, the Americans have suffered because of this. But as they move past this historical moment more and more troops are pouring into the U.S.” In a press release it was said, “The battle over the Iwo Jima has gone on for the better part of two decades.” It is not yet true that the war was a bloodbath, but that the men in the Marines and military surgeons who were sent up to a hill in the Suribachi peak were given medals and honor. I cannot help but wonder if the American public will look back at the events in 1940 and look at what it is like today. They will wonder. But it is a very different story. The American people are deeply troubled by the fact that the United States, under this new administration, has taken a brutal policy, but that does not mean it will allow American soldiers to be treated as second class citizens. In my own view, the past couple of years have been an incredibly tumultuous. I have known President Truman since I was young. He has often seen as his best friend the brave men and women of Air Force Special Staff and Air Force General Staff who participated in the Pearl Harbor tragedy in 1945. But, during the war they have also served in our ranks together. What we did not see from Truman was who truly stood up for peace. These are the heroes he has fought at his best. It is a small price to pay for the American people’s resolve that we take this forward. When the American people were first asked to forgive the British and their policies from 1939-1945, they didn’t seem entirely ready to do it. If Truman had spoken, we would not have been able to see this conflict of hatred and conflict in an American context. The American people understood the magnitude and meaning of this war when it started and so they gave an overwhelming vote of no confidence to its end. They felt a sense of betrayal for the country, and a sense it was at war but it was a war of conscience and courage. There may be some other reasons behind this vote, but I am sure it cannot be seen that way. What made us think it was possible for the United States to go to war was not because of some misguided desire to please its own soldiers nor its own leaders but because because of the sheer size of the American military. The war was so great because of the strength of the American people being able to go out to the hills to fight it, to see the devastation of this devastation and then stand and support the soldiers we went to see when they were wounded by enemy fire. What made the Americans go to war was that most of the young Americans we sent up at 1,000 were older and less experienced than us. They were trained at home, learned at the military academies, and they received jobs on the front lines. They were trained as volunteers and, with the assistance of a handful of trained military doctors and surgeons, were trained to help these wounded warriors recover. This allowed them to do work that was only fair. The men who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor were not just men we helped during WWII, but also men who had gone to work to do the right thing. The American people knew this and they recognized this and they did not try to prevent it. They held
Flags of our fathers, with the voice-overs of the survivors, tell the story behind the famous photograph of the flag being raised over Iwo Jima Island in World War II. There were interlocking scenes from past and present throughout the movie showing how the battle got underway, that its intensity could be too scared to be imagined. The movie has caused a stir of public cinema when the film premiered in North America on October 20, 2006. The cast is very young, who is seen as a promising new face to replace superstars Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt such as Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Jamie Bell, …, etc.
The movie opens with the introducing of the main themes. After a prelude on the sea, American troops landed easily without any Japanese fire. But the silent did not take long till they were ambushed by concealed enemy positions. On that first day, almost all of American died. The Japanese tactic was fearfully effective as the Marines could not foresee. One Marine was thunders trucked: “How did they dig these things?” after seeing the link by tunnel in the solid rock from their positions. This is the only battle in the Pacific that the amount of American soldiers died was larger than that of the enemy since the USA entered WWII. The Marines suffered one-third of all their WWII combat deaths, and almost all the 22000 entrenched Japanese died, some by their own hands.
But the dire battlefield was not the core argument. The movie particularly focused on the six American soldiers in the movie highlighted the truth that they were not only fighting for their flag or their country but also for their comrades. The movie is strong touching as recording the aftermath in the lives of survivors. The three survivors have different behaviors: the first person is overwhelmed by the heros halo; the second man escapes the pain and the obsession of war in the endless drunks, the last one against all that evokes war. But anyway, they do not want to be praised as heroes and do not regard themselves as heroes. For them, the teammates who have permanently laid down