A Great Movie from a Great Moviemaker

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2007)

great movie.. from a great director but what else is new? I really like the movie and I will tell you why but let me first quote the even greater Charles Bukowski: "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romantism or politics." well lets emphasis on the romantism because romantism is the genre of this movie. why? What do the soldiers represent in the war - the simple man. The simple man in extraordinary circumstances - romantism, a genre in Literature. The war is the extraordinary circumstance and the "one man at a time" is private Ryan. Now most of the negativism about the movie comes from the grandiose story but Spielberg presents the story with historical facts so the film doesn't feel too distant or too Hollywood. The Camera follows the actors in the sand and the piles of dead bodies. We see guts, blood, limbs. We see from their point of view while the battle unfolds. Spielberg has always had "an eye" for the photography but here he puts it to the limit. His vision is undeniable because its personal and because its a movie, it brings out a world before the viewers eyes and they cant judge the characters who by the way are perfectly created by the actors, Tom Hanks in a blowing-our-minds-of-performance, because its an extraordinary circumstance in which the simple man tries to figure out a way to survive or to do the right thing.
In the end the old Ryan ask if he has lived a good life, if he is a good person, if he has earned it as Capt. Miller aka Tom Hanks told him before he died. In a way the movie is philosophical but I think that it is more like a book, you read it and think about it - what it means and what it is about, in contexts means, because its a great movie, it does what a great movie does - says what it suppose to say.