Get a box of tissues ready because I guarantee you will be washed by tears.

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2020)

Updated version: Can't remember how many times I have watched this highly rated (8.6/10) classic movie 🎥 - TONIGHT again! There is not a single time my face is not washed with tears 😭, my nose not run over with sniffles 😢, my voice not jammed with chokes, and my heart not filled with sadness, just to name a few. And tonight is no exception, only for it to get worse. I guess part of the reason is that the scene starts at the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach 🏖 in Normandy where I visited around this time last year. Obviously 🙄 your physical proximity to a place makes you more susceptible to things happening there. It is such a soul searching, heart wrenching, mind blowing and thought 💭 provoking movie 🎥. The brutality of war, the cruelty of human nature and the fragility of life cannot be painted more vividly.
As some people think 🤔 war movies 🎥 are very distressing and depressing, I find myself immensely in love 😍 with such type of movies 🎥. I seem to inadvertently be a fan of Cold Mountains 🏔, Band of Brothers, Pearl Harbour, and Australia 🇦🇺, just to make a few. For one thing I think 🤔 it's very real. I'm just as relentlessly as brutally a realist. For another it is highly visual and graphic. You don't need to over-analyze to understand it. And if I go one step further it is largely set on some historic scene which comes with certain element of documentary. I understand people like happy 😃 moments which of course is a positive thing. But life is not clearcut. It is mixed. Life is not simple. It is complicated. Life is not singular. It is plural. Life is not single-dimensional. It is multifaceted. It is not always about happy 😃 memories. We all have our sad 😔moments. To me such thought 💭 provoking movies 🎥 fill this vacuum. As much as I am an emotional 😭 person I am also a deeply intellectual being. Not only do I enjoy 😉 the fancy and beauty of dining and wining but also I like exploring and reflecting deeper meaning of life on a quiet night. I'm more of a spiritual person than a material one I would say.
What war movies 🎥 attract me from another perspective is that it shows how bond is formed between brothers, how love is strengthened through hardship and how friends in need become friends indeed. It is care, love, generosity and above all humanity that see us through and bring us together.
Thank you 🙏 Saving Private Ryan crew for making yet another unforgettable milestone in motion picture history. You undoubtedly deserve to have 5 Oscar winners and 6 Oscar nominations under your belt.
And one last thing please. The benefit of traveling around the world 🌎 is that when you watch different movies 🎥 shot at different locations you recognize those places and will probably say "Yes great. I've been there too," which will bring you emotionally closer to the show.