1. Saving Private Ryan - anti war movie?
Instead of giving us war as a tactical maneuver, Spielberg gives us war as human experience. Saving Private Ryan quickly and brutally dispels the notion that war is anything but vicious, demoralizing violence that makes a cruel joke out of the human body and spirit. ... Spielberg's real interest lay elsewhere: he wants us to understand the effect that war had upon the psyches of the men who endured its battles, he wants us to appreciate the great sacrifice that the soldiers made for their country, and he wants us to experience some of that brutality and carnage so that we can better a...
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