Saving Private Ryan

             When I watch this movie, I think of a game of chess. Each team is a different color, like the different nations fighting against each other. With each skilled move, you have to take a chance, but regardless you are going to lose some of your teammates. Just like war, there can be only one winner. In the first scene, the first soldiers to get off the boat get killed, and these would be considered the pawns. In the game of chess, each team has two rows. The first rows are the pawns, the first to die. Then there is the king in a game of chess is the leader, like Tom Hanks as the commander/Captain. The queen in a chess game is able to do anything, but she mostly protecting the king.. Tom Sizemore plays the Captain's trusted right hand, and he would be considered the queen in the movie.
             Saving Private Ryan clearly shows that real war, so appalling, not the waving glorification that you usually see at the movies, is hell on earth. This movie is not an anti-war film, but it shows what the men are really there for. As a critic, I am going to take on the feministic view of the film. This movie shows America the dark side of the face of war whereas the movies back in the 40's were not aloud to show what the war was really like for men. It shows a great absence of women in the film. This film was rated many times as a feministic movie because of the intensity of the story and because of the people dying. All in all it is a sad film. As a feminist, I would say that war movies are just another excuse to show how dominating and powerful men are. This is a major issue in today's society.
             "War movies give filmmakers an excuse to do what, in any other format, would be considered suspicious these days: valorize a world of men" (Goldstein). It is where the only defense is the cohesion of the male unit. Again, male gender is more dominating.
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