Desmond Doss, a World War II Medic, became the first conscientious objector to become famous and earn a medal of honor. He saved men, on the historic Hacksaw Ridge, by lowering down dozens of wounded soldiers with no gun to protect him from the Japanese. His story has begun to spread worldwide and Hollywood has made a motion picture, Hacksaw Ridge, about his impressive story. The film, Hacksaw Ridge, portrays the life of Desmond Doss accurate through violent war scenes, his kind country personality, and sticks to real life occurrences. The violentness of war has soldiers left with post traumatic stress disorder and life traumatizing events and the screenplay has done a true depiction of Hacksaw Ridge. While researching and planning the
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It was not a corny war movie, but a realistic heart-moving film. As the war started Doss wanted to help out so “Desmond enlists as a medic and suffered tremendous abuse at the hands of fellow soldiers” (Vernier 1). No country boy wants to fight with a fellow soldier without a weapon because the unit is theoretical all going to fight with and for each other. As a consequence of declining to bear arms, he vividly gets beat up for his religion and that is played out perfectly in the film. A direct result of getting beat up ends up being Doss biggest accomplishment of becoming “the first conscientious objector to receive the medal of honor” (Goldstein 1). And the motion picture developed this perspective as Doss, being a magnificent hero, instead of the perspective of one of those country boys from his unit. Doss “grand finale” in the war was saving dozens of men off Hacksaw Ridge yet he had a dilemma which was illuminated on the movie screen. Desmond T. Doss believed that the Sabbath was for rest when he was needed most in a gruesome battle and“Mr. Doss felt he could serve as a medic seven days of the week since, as he put it Christ Healed on the Sabbath” (Goldstein 1). As the film convinced us that he was not going to help America, realistically he changes his mind which shocks the audience and shocked his officers in the war. Doss’s actions are
It was not a corny war movie, but a realistic heart-moving film. As the war started Doss wanted to help out so “Desmond enlists as a medic and suffered tremendous abuse at the hands of fellow soldiers” (Vernier 1). No country boy wants to fight with a fellow soldier without a weapon because the unit is theoretical all going to fight with and for each other. As a consequence of declining to bear arms, he vividly gets beat up for his religion and that is played out perfectly in the film. A direct result of getting beat up ends up being Doss biggest accomplishment of becoming “the first conscientious objector to receive the medal of honor” (Goldstein 1). And the motion picture developed this perspective as Doss, being a magnificent hero, instead of the perspective of one of those country boys from his unit. Doss “grand finale” in the war was saving dozens of men off Hacksaw Ridge yet he had a dilemma which was illuminated on the movie screen. Desmond T. Doss believed that the Sabbath was for rest when he was needed most in a gruesome battle and“Mr. Doss felt he could serve as a medic seven days of the week since, as he put it Christ Healed on the Sabbath” (Goldstein 1). As the film convinced us that he was not going to help America, realistically he changes his mind which shocks the audience and shocked his officers in the war. Doss’s actions are