Flags of our fathers [ 2006 — War ]
Pro­duced by : Clint East­wood and Steven Spiel­berg.
Directed by : Clint Eastwood.

First.. I thought of writ­ing the review in this style.

In Amer­i­can soil, except civil war, they never faced any exter­nal. But they are the mas­ters in cre­at­ing the war based movies. The best I can say [ from my list ] are Schindler’s list, Sav­ing pri­vate Ryan, pearl har­bour.. I just thought of adding FOF in that list and started watch­ing. The film gave a tight slap on my face.. con­verted my mind to write this instead of a detailed review.

The film starts with a dialog..

“Every jack­ass thinks he knows what war is.. Espe­cially those who’ve never been in. We like things nice and sim­ple, good and evil, heroes and vil­lains. There are plenty of both.Most of the time, they are not who we think they are ”

I am one of the j.a. who just watched a war movie. I’m not enti­tled to write a review on this. :(
The film ends with this..

“They may have fought for their coun­try, but they died for their friends. For the man in front, for the man besides them.”

The story was told in a mix of present and war period. The nar­ra­tion starts from the mid­dle of the hap­pen­ing instead of, from the begin­ning. The tech­nique was too good and cap­ti­vat­ing. One of the good movies from Client East­wood. I’m still won­der­ing which of the shots are made up of CG. If it is CG, it is the best in CG his­tory.. If it is orig­i­nal, still it is the best in film history.

A counter movie has been released [ Let­ters from Iwo Jimo — Japan­ese view­point ]. I am look­ing for­ward to watch the same.

Related Posts B

1. ABOUT ME
2. Nijam ondru.. Nizhal Irandu
3. Mae­stros in cel­lu­loid — Themes.