Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan displays some of the most realistic and graphic representations of war. Throughout this artistically genius movie, Robert Rodat, the superb writer of the thrilling movie Saving Private Ryan, displays a view on war that has frequent connections to the authentic representation. The movie first presents the theme of Love with the mournful reunion of Private Ryan and his deiced friend Captain John H. Miller, the man who sacrificed his life to save Ryan. Although love is not thought as being a usual theme of a war movie, many of the actions of American soldiers toward each other are full of love. Not only is Love shown in the opening scene, but also is shown throughout the movie. The movie continues to show the exposition of

The two men die in action. Both men died while thinking about their loved ones back home. Another impressive representation of love, is the love of man and his country. The movie includes the enormous loss of life to which American soldiers in WWII endured. Although a soldier knew he was going to die he would still preform his duty in order to save the lives of others. This is represented in the movie as Captain Miller walks into oncoming enemy fire in order to blow up a bridge to save the existing lives of his unit. Another important theme throughout the movie is the importance of religion. Religion plays a major role in the actions and performance of the soldiers. The use of religion is shown before important shots of some of the soldiers; as well as, in deaths of many of the soldiers. Although all these themes show importance, death is the most prevalent theme throughout the movie. The movie represents the evident death that war causes; as well as, the hardships of the family and friends of the lost warrior. Saving Private Ryan shows that with war comes death and the heroism of people to risk their lives for

The movie shows the unbelievable destruction that one single person can lead. In WWII massive amounts of innocent lives were lost because on man started an army. This cultural event of war will never be eliminated because there will always be a person who wants more power, land, or money. The world will always be greedy and it will never change. This movie shows the true effect that the greed come to pursue. A bloodbath of people losing their lives. Not only does it affect the soldier who lost his live, but also it effects the family of the soldier. The tremendous loss of money, life, and resources proves the power of greed and discrimination. These values awful values are always going to haunt the world. Another value is the bravery to sacrifice a life for the safety of others. Captain Miller explains, “when you end up killing one of your men, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others.” (?????). He is explaining that every time he loses a man he believes that he has saved more lives than the one death. This means his mentality is risk the lives of men to save others. This value is important to have in any culture. The value of religion also places a role in the society of today; as well as, the society of the 1940s. As in many wars religion is either the main cause or implicated heavily in the everyday lives