An interesting war trailer

Rating: 8/10 (3 December 2013)

*Note: this review is a mash-up several reviews written by students in an English class at Lycée Henri Cornat in France.
During the Second World War, the Ryan family loses three sons and one is missing. Three of them died in the fighting. One of them is missing in the Cotentin: his name is James Ryan. Their mother receives a telegram telling her about the death of her sons. Captain Miller's mission is to find Private Ryan. This absence of action gives me a patriotic impression, which may be a little bit ridiculous, especially when the camera is focused on Tom Hank 's eyes (an excellent actor to me because of his great career). The trailer depicts the soldiers as courageous and brave heroes: it remind of famous French saying « un pour tous et tous pour un » that is to say soldiers are very united.
One of points I appreciate is that the trailer doesn't show any frames of the film at the beginning but only archived to the WW2. I think it's a good thing because the trailer doesn't spoil the film. But at the same time after seeing the trailer I don't really know if it was focused on the action or on the military brotherhood.
Here, the soldiers are shown as brave, courageous and self-sacrificing. They are depicted as heroes. We find brotherhood, loyalty, and friendship. They are portrayed as heroes because, we can see and suppose that they 'fight' with the suffering. In the end of the trailer, we see a dark landscape with a hill and only a man who is a soldier because he has a gun. There are clouds, and the sky is dark. In the closing image, we can see clouds: it may be to show all the soldiers who had lost their lives, and it reminds us that death is all around.
This amazing representation of WW2 stresses the emotional dimension of war. If you want to see a movie about war only, don't watch this film because the most important in the story is the mission of some soldiers and not the fight against Nazi Germany. Overall, we can say that this trailer makes people want to see this original film about the war. It's not a shocking trailer, and mainly the touching side is shown. A war film for girls?!