I liked it, but I saw it differently than other viewers

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2003)

I just saw this movie on video, and the movie did draw me, but not the ending. I also saw this movie from a different point of view than how others have seen it. Many of the viewers here commented on how unrealistic Hart's War was in terms of life in a concentration camp. I saw the characterization of Hart.
SOME SPOILERS AHEAD
1. Why is Bruce Willis the star of this movie? The title of the movie is HART'S War, not McNamara's War.
Plus the movie followed Thomas Hart (Colin Farrell), not McNamara (Bruce Willis)
It is Thomas Hart we see at the beginning. It was Thomas Hart we see driving the jeep and getting captured. It was Thomas Hart we see interrogated and imprisoned, even huddling completely naked in a cold prison cell. It was Thomas Hart we see in the POW train, shivering from cold and horrified at seeing his friend die. It was Thomas Hart we follow in the march. It was Thomas Hart we see reacting to the camp (the hanging, the rats). It was Thomas Hart we see becoming a leader and eventual defender. It was Thomas Hart.
McNamara is just someone who shows up from time to time, and is secretly working behind the scenes to liberate his fellow American soldiers. We didn't follow McNamara as he was doing this. We followed Hart.
2. In the beginning, I saw a man who had a comfy job at what appears to be military headquarters. By taking on an assignment to transport an officer, he comes to experience for the first time the horrors of war. From there, he grows to be a leader of his unit and eventual attorney to another black soldier who was accused of the crime.
3. Hart seems to be ashamed to be a senator's son. When the soldier mentioned it in the jeep, Hart looked offended. I saw the shame again when he was talking about his family with the defendant. I wish they could explore this issue more (not necessarily in the jeep but later in the movie). Why be ashamed to be a senator's son?
4. Hart also seems to have been sheltered, that he hasn't really experienced the horrors of war until the jeep incident and eventual POW.
5. It was great to see Colin Farrell play a likable character for once. He was such a jerk in Phone Booth, in Minority Report, and a villain in Daredevil.