The best movie that injures mind

Rating: 10/10 (10 February 2016)

Recently I decided to watch again "Saving Private Ryan" with an intention to describe its general sense within couple paragraphs as a small review. But as soon as I've done it, I realized that my review cannot be as small as I intentionally planned.
I would start with the main statement: this is the most massive movie about war I've ever seen. Notwithstanding it is a little bit too American, in my opinion. The movie impresses with its uncovered realism. Steven Spielberg, thrashing over his battle scenes, tried to make them be more like a news-reel from a battlefront. The close-ups, full of dynamics; a scenery detailed elaboration; a meticulous filling scenes with sound and colour: all these not just impress but stun and literally injure viewer's mind.
The key episode of the first half of the movie is a landing attack on a beach of Normandy. In a first moment as hatches of troop- carrying vessels are open first rows of soldiers are sweeping away by stormly fire of large-calibre rifles. Others (with the imaginary camera- man) start to jump over from both boards of the boat. Several time we are drawn down and up again; as water cover us all sounds are being so muttered and meaningless and we feel ourselves almost safe. But then bullets starts to stitch the water body over and over. And the water turns red... Oh, I shouldn't try to retell what has been already geniusly filmed. These couple of minutes leave viewer completely breathless. And you believe in what you see from start to finish.
And then the battle begins. No, I'm wrong, not the battle but slaughtery. It is shocking. The death is shown with all of its uncovered might. When I meet somewhere in a text or in TV a phrase like "he went through hell at that war", even it's not about WW2, but I remain this battle scene from this movie to help my mind understand the phrase better.
Stephen Spielberg said about battle scenes of the movie that he wanted to represent them in a way to diminish tendency of violence embellishment.
The cast is good, very good. Tom Hanks is a great actor and this is his greatest role, in my opinion. Yes, he is playing again his "mr. Good Guy" cliché, but it doesn't matter. Sincerely speaking, I do not much like American mentality, which shows most vividly in American stories about war, about American soldiers. And that's why I like Tom Hanks here: he made an image of Cpt. James Miller very close too my idea of what an officer should be. He could play a soviet officer for that story as well; there wouldn't be any dissonance at all. I like image he made very much.
Once again: set design is amazing. You never doubt that this is a war in front of you, not for a moment. The war is every small detail: in every stone, in every building, in everywhere.
But the storyline is not complicated at all. It's not bad, because it is so marvelously represented; even typical American messages in the beginning and in the end are not worsen my general feeling about the movie. I think these messages are even controversial to all other parts of the movie.
My rate: 10/10