Beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (7 April 2003)

It is hard to comprehend how a film showing the horrors of war, could be so beautiful and poetic. it pays great respect to both sides in the struggle for Guadalcanal. we don't see the Japanese right until the Americans are upon them. at first we image them as a thing of hate, but when we see how they react to their situation, we realise that they are no different from the GI's. It was so beautifully crafted, acted and filmed, with a stunning soundtrack (The Melanesian music was superb,and the musical highlight was Faure's Requiem-in Paradisium,during the opening sequence)and although i like SPR, this made me really realise the horrors of war even more,as we delved into the main characters, and there were many of them. A must see, 10/10