When will they ever learn?

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 1998)

This may be the best film I've ever seen, a film which give me so much thoughts and feelings. Although the film is a little bit too cruel and fleshly, it is a good media to let people think about the reality of a war, a campaign that can ruin millions of lives and souls. The most horrible thing to take part in a war is not being killed, but to watch the others died one by one besides your feet. Think of it, they are flesh and blood, not the characters in the TV games. Should they be killed just for one or two people's foolish decision? They all have families, they are innocent. I appreciate with the decision about that chief marshal, to save private Ryan and send him home at any cost, he didn't mind to sacrifice 8 soldiers for giving console to the old lady with 3 sons already died in the battle fields.
Steven Spielburg has produced a very great movie, different from the other scientific film he had ever made, but it is a most touching film that gives a good lesson to most of the people. It makes me think about the song "Where have all the flowers gone?" Yes, there are still battles even in this modern world, still destroying millions of spirits and families, when will they ever learn?