A war movie? You missed at least half

Rating: 8/10 (4 July 2015)

After the most amazing recreation of a war epos in one shot (or how to compress a wonder movie like The Longest Day in 20 minutes), Tom Hanks graces us with a personal travel through Normandy based in personal weakness and group strengths. How a literature teacher, with experience in summer basket teams, can cope with the horrors and unsensical situations of a total war? Just following the logic of the situation: field manual up to the core and thinking that every life lost represents ten saved. "Angels on our shoulders" will grant us the possibility to earn a full life. Do we deserve it? Only a row of marbled crosses will be able to answer... Why then not a 10? Simple... I have seen German War graveyards... where each cross is shared by 3 persons per side. With people from early 50's to those that barely reached 18. War is hell for all... not only for Private Ryan.