wondering

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2001)

What made me perplexed about this movie is the message sent by Spielberg. During the dramatic sequences of the Normandy battle, I thought he was attempting to show the horror and absurdity of war. But he chooses to dehumanize the German soldiers. More, you should not spare the life of one (even a unarmed prisoner), because that ungrateful coward will comeback to kill you and all your journeymen with pleasure.
I guess it would be to difficult for Spielberg to show that the horrors of the holocaust and of the war were not perpetrated by a different species contained in a certain time, but by men like every others, and under certain conditions these could be reproduced anywhere else.

Why not make a film that makes us realize (even the Jewish), that we could be (are?) those monsters, so history does not repeat itself. Instead we have another one about courage under fire... And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.