Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan The first time I saw Saving Private Ryan, I couldn’t watch the whole thing. I got up in the first 15 minutes and had to leave the theater. Now don’t get me wrong, I love blood and guts just as much as the next person, but this movie was unlike any Hollywood horror flick I had ever seen. This was a real movie, too real for me. It was a raw, …showed first 75 words of 1392 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1392 total…evenly distributed and takes on a powerful subject. Saving Private Ryan isn't merely another war movie, I really felt like it had a life of its own, by capturing the soul of war. Now I understand why the film won five Academy Awards. It presents a realistic depiction of the lives and deaths of G.I.'s in WWII, and even though the story line is not true, the moral dilemmas brought from it are.