By far the greatest depiction of war ever

Rating: Null/10 (23 March 1999)

When first viewing this movie, I walked into the theatre thinking, 'ahh..another war movie'. When I left that theatre, three hours later, I was teary eyed. I did not have trouble sleeping the next day, but that morning after, my mind finally grasped the magnitude of the losses felt by the American family. Steven Spielberg socked it to us, so to speak, with his brilliant opening onthe bloodied, gory beaches of Normandy, 1944. Using hand held cameras, 8mm footage, and the inclusion of mistakes , like the camera being dropped, showed us the confusion, the fear, the unpreparedness of that French beach. one cannot blink, for he or she is so involved in the film. That is what a movie should do to a person. To anyone who didn't like this movie, I suggest you jump into the theatre again and watch it, then look at your soul, for it was the young men who fought that and those wars to give that soul.