Recently, I revisited "Saving Private Ryan" again, and I have to lament that this film can still be touched today more than 20 years later. Especially when you look at each different period of your own, you will have different understandings. This may be the charm of a good film.
When I first saw this film when I was a child, I felt that it was bloody, violent, and I didn't know anything about the content inside. What you look at is inside you hit me, I hit you in the shootout. I didn't analyze the content inside and what the central idea I wanted to express was, but I only knew that this person killed many people, and the marksmanship was accurate, so I praised him for his cattle and cattle criticism, and this person booed him badly, like a mental retardation.
When Xiaobian Middle School saw this film again, his thinking changed a little, and he would think about why these people had to desperately save a soldier who was not famous, and to save him was not to go to a place like school, but to have to go through the rain of bullets. Sacrificing his own life to save, the most ridiculous thing is that his life and death is still an unknown, is this really worth it?
At that time, I must have thought it was not worth it, 8 for 1 is not the same as huluwa saving grandpa, one by one to send, or very miserable kind. I can only silently admire them all as men, watching them burp one by one. They were also suspicious of the rear commanders who gave them the order. Who is not a father born and raised, saving a family, letting five families lose members, watching the fellow doctors shouting "Mommy..." when they are dying, I am really uncomfortable!
That's when I gave up on the mentally handicapped film and only revisited it with my girlfriend until recently when she wanted to watch it. The strange thing is that this time I looked a little different from the past, I don't know if I grew up, or experienced more things, when I watched, I didn't have the violent temper of the past, but I had a little more contemplation.
8 people to save a person seems to be a Shi Lezhi's approach on the surface, anyone thinks that this is a money-losing business, but why do they still want to do it, to save a single seedling. When I was younger I couldn't understand it, but now I seem to understand. In the context of World War II at that time, death and injury were inevitable, but for an elderly mother, the sacrifice of three of the four sons in the family was a big blow to her, and even the fourth son was still alive and dead. The United States is a democratic country, out of humanitarianism, let 8 elites to save Ryan, live to see people, dead to see the corpse.
Perhaps this operation seems to us to be a send-off proposition. But for a country, this is a plus, when the most need for troops in World War II, if the United States does not practice humanitarian spirit, how to stabilize the social atmosphere at that time. How to make every family willingly let their children put on military uniforms to fight for the country and even sacrifice.
Think about what would have happened if you hadn't saved Ryan. Others will criticize the United States as a country that cannot even protect its family, so how to win the war, who will believe that the country sacrificed itself? It's me I'm not going to. That's why the United States had to send its elite to save Ryan. I think that sacrificing 8 people was not actually Ryan, but the victory of the war. What do you think?