Outstanding true event!

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2017)

HACKSAW RIDGE Mel Gibson
That was the moment when Desmond Doss pick up the gun in the last part of the movie, the audience just banged with the truth that he is not going to use it. Ya, that's true and we are also felt the righteousness in the climax of the movie were the medic Doss just hold the gun to save his superior not to encounter his enemies. It was an exceptional war film from the maestro of violence (at some point) and the veteran filmmaker of reality. That can be also seen in Brave Heart, Apocalypto, Passion of the Christ etc. were he just going through the utmost level of human emotions, basically his sufferings. He went across the unbelievable aspects of the real life happenings so that the viewer feels some sort of indifference because he (the audience) looks himself in that situation. There lies the success of a filmmaker and simultaneously that is the success of Mel Gibson as a director.
Based on a true event, Gibson has been going along with truthfulness of that real event with one hundred percent sincerity. Desmond Doss, a simple guy in looks and in the physical nature, a clean heart ed poor boy going through a beautiful love affair with Dorothy, a nurse. He appreciated everything around him, went above the hills look around it and howls like a wolf at the top like an immature man to show his happiness. Behind this happiness there lies some sort of unhappiness in his life, that's the family problem with his father and mother. But he forgets all those issues (look like that) and going through a life that he wanted to. His innocence is being the key element that portrays the peculiarity of his character and it can be seen at the military camp also. He doesn't want to cross his superior's orders but he follows his own decorum there, and that was his negligence to use guns. He was appointed as a medic there and the Performa completely ensure with the usage of guns to medics and all other medics do the same thing but Doss doesn't seems to accept the orders. He always carries a pocket Holy Bible with Dorothy's picture inside and always recites (in mind) the lines from the Bible. That divine book plays an important role here.
Second World War is highly demolishing and thrashing each and every human lives and broke out with the thunderous outcome and went up into a hardcore stage. It's the time to move on and the camp is ready to attack the Japanese army with full bound. They are reaching to the Hacksaw ridge were the battle or the attack is going to happen. And the one thing got to be surprise is Desmond Doss is in the US army side as a medic without carrying a gun with the permission of the superior because of the letter from his father which reveals his father was an army man in his early life. Here, we can see the utmost directing skill of Mel Gibson were audience might feel the attack is going on just in front of them.
The attack is the hardcore moment of the movie, divide into two or three sections of about 10-20 minutes, the war shook the audience with the sharpness of reality and adventurous mode blend with such the power of individuality. Yes of course, each and every army man were pointed with extreme focus that sort their (individual) sufferings always gets into attention. There lies the significance of Desmond Doss as a medic and a human being in the utmost level of war ambiance. He holds only medicines and pain killers with him and wandering around through the battlefield to provide medical assistance for the wounded soldiers. The moment of the movie came when the soldiers leave from the Hacksaw Ridge were the wounded soldiers remained there Doss alone stayed only with his own intention without knowing others and help others to get medical assistance and helps them to reach to the medical camp. Doss took a herculean task in that atmosphere of gun fires and grenade shells; he alone assumes the charge of a rescue mission operator. With that physical nature he helps all wounded soldiers to come down without considering about his own physical condition and the risk that he voluntarily taken. And their director deliberately goes with us the truth behind why Doss is not able or not in the mood to hold a gun. It was because of the family problem; were Doss fired his father's pistol towards (and a shook turns the pistol shifts around) him when he is in quarreling with his mother. That was the first and last time Doss hold a gun. When the pistol fires from his hand, his father doesn't understand what is happening and even Desmond too. There backdrops the innocence of Desmond and his strange behavior.