A Film That Will Live On, Forever

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2000)

I can remember the hype on television. Tom Hanks on Oprah. Ed Burns and Matt Damon on the View. I thought nothing of it at the time, I thought it was just another big movie by Steven Spielberg. Then one day in late summer I decided to go see this film. I walked out of the theater that day, a humbled 16 year old boy, crying like a child. What was that I had just seen? Did those things really happen? Why?
Saving Private Ryan is the single greatest movie I have ever seen. A lot of people recommend movies that make you think about something, whether it be a cause, an emotion or a question. Saving Private Ryan makes you think, it makes you think of the price of our freedom. This movie, and this movie alone, shows the horrors that our fathers and grandfathers had to face. This movie has sparked several conversations with my grandfather about what he went through during the years of 1939-1945 and boy, would his stories make a good movie.
I just can not describe the emotional impact this film has had on me and the ones close to me. It was made with such precision and care, it is undescribable. The story is moving, the acting is absolutely flawless, the realism is beyond comparison to any other war film and the time spent on historical accuracy must have lasted for years. Just watch the Omaha Beach sequence and you will see what I mean about historical accuracy. John Williams musical score is amazing and heart felt as is Mr. Spielberg's direction.
In closing, Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece. A masterpiece that should be shown in every history class across this great nation called America.