Deeper than Saving Private Ryan

Rating: 9/10 (29 March 2005)

I must confess that this movie is quiet an experience. But I'm not sure that we can describe it as a war movie. If we compare it with Saving Private Ryan, we get the difference pretty fast. This film try to be objective and want to get a clean radiography of the German way of thinking. I get really impressed with the German patriotism and I stop for a moment and think about something Steven Spielberg's film didn't show. How must had been for the German people to lost that war, for much people the conflict was everything. That is why I think this film is much better than Saving Private Ryan. Oliver Hirschbiegel is not a conformist and doesn't agree with Spielberg simplicity. Good soldiers, bad soldiers and an evil empire. I ignore if Hirschbiegel's film is historically exact, but I'm happy to see at least something new, with great actor as Bruno Ganz in a film that waste emotion.