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
It is all about how the men saved our country and the women did not. " Shulgasser agrees that this scene in the movie will be the most horrific and emotional because you witness so many casualties at one time. It is where the only defense is the cohesion of the male unit. "Women appear, only very briefly, as mothers, wives, typists" (Gans). Again, male gender is more dominating. According to Barbara Shulgasser, an feminist examiner movie critic, states, "The D-Day landing on Omaha Beach was a slaughter, and from the first moments you have a profound understanding of how capricious the fates were. We witness guts spilling out, a dazed soldier picking up his own severed arm, another dragging his legless body. But where are the women while all of this is going on? "Women are virtually absent from Private Ryan, and they appear only in a soft-focus montage of breasts and lapping waves (Goldstein). " Graham is making the point that we, the viewers, may not want to see what the war was actually like, but we do watch it. As a feminist, I would say that war movies are just another excuse to show how dominating and powerful men are. It tells us what those innocent male soldiers unwillingly had to do for their country, even if it meant dying for it. It shows a great absence of women in the film. At the end of the movie, it is like a checkmate because our army guarded the bridge and did not let the Germans take it. The whole time that I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, "I am glad that I am a woman so that I did not have to go through that.
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