Saving Private Ryan Movie Analysis

People can never truly know how it feels to be in war, unless they’ve been in one. Even if someone who’s seen war tells them about it, they can’t understand. Movie’s rarely portray it how it’s suppose to be or they can’t catch the feeling of it. Although, Saving Private Ryan is one of the movies that show a piece of the struggle of war. With the many strong events that happened, it shows the war that only those who serve in it experience. It wasn’t just the main squad that showed what war is, but also all of the soldiers killed throughout the movie. War is definitely not to be taken light or to be seen as great. No matter which side wins, the amount of lives lost loom over people, especially soldiers. The film does a spectacular job of exemplifying a quote from All Quiet on the Western Front, which says “Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they …show more content…
Many most likely believe that soldiers hold almost no fear, but they do. Another part from the quote of the 20 year old German soldier is “I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear”(Remarque, 295). This quote shows that soldiers, no matter which side, are sometimes just so separated from the world and have no light in their life that they just confront anyone in their way head on. One example from the movie is when Corporal Upham couldn’t kill Steamboat Willie till the very end. He was broken about what he should’ve done, but didn’t do. It wasn’t until he saw Captain Miller get shot by him that he finally did something. He had contemplated to himself for a while until he eventually had enough and went on to kill him for the crimes he had committed. Though many believe soldier are brave and can take anything, they sometimes just can’t. They commit mistakes and break down, like any human being. War is what many people call it, a necessary evil. No one likes war, but sometimes there just isn’t another way out of