Alone In Berlin, Saving Private Ryan, And Hacksaw Ridge

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The movie industry for many years has tried to revive, recreate history’s most brutal and gory war it has ever seen. People who had fought in the war say that whatever they experienced in actual war cannot be remade, yet film makers create possible scenarios of war similar to the actual ones. Movies such as Pearl Harbor. Red Tails, alone in Berlin, Saving Private Ryan, and Hacksaw Ridge provide situations during World War Two that were very similar to reality. To start off, Pearl Harbor gives us the famous scene in which most of us students can only imagine how pearl harbor on December 7, 1941. According to most historians, it was partially correct, they explained that the control towers and people, were receiving information too quickly... we have to remember that it was the 1940’s where technology was not as advanced as it was when the movie was created. The movie did. accurately, got the attack correct, till this day it gives any student an image …show more content…
This movie demonstrated how the Nazi party was lying to its own people, and how the citizens were being manipulated for an incorrect cause. Alone in Berlin shows us how people would slowly destroy mentally the enemy which were their own government. As a viewer, it made me realize that not all Germans were for the war, many have lost too much and they were tired as any country fighting in the war. Saving Private Ryan was very accurate, A big battle was presented in the beginning of the movie which was D-Day. It portrayed how people felt before the battle, with nausea and nervousness, and how many didn’t make it through the water when getting off the little boats. And how blood and body parts were shed. Accurate on the gore, which as a viewer gave me the perception of how war could be like and how many men lost their lives through the innovations of weapons during the war such as tanks and the “sticky”

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