Well made but somewhat sanitized

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2020)

I understand the plaudits for this film, it was really good in many aspects and deserving of its awards and nominations; however, I'm apparently one of only a few that noticed the intellectual dishonesty, the unnecessary sanitization of battle-emotion, that is, when Blake was knifed by the German pilot he and Scofield tried to save, there was no cursing, no racial epithets, in fact, no anger, and that's the problem, no true feelings, inauthentic, sanitized. The film is already rate "R" but it was a soft R likely due to mild language and gruesome scenery, so an honest, R-rated display of battle-emotion would've been perfectly fine and accepted, but instead we get PG, not even PG-13 and that's a big hit against the film's authenticity for me, even amidst so much genuine experience.