In war there are no winners, only survivors, and widows.
Mel Gibson is back on the 'podium'. I like Gibson, he has many kids (nine, known), from three women...I think. Plus he's a great actor and film's director. Bonus: Money (lots of it). ...And he has a cute girlfriend:
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I watched + Hacksaw Ridge last night:
"A biopic about World War II Army Medic Desmond Doss, who was awarded the Medal of Honour for his rescue efforts on the battlefields of Okinawa despite being a conscientious objector to the war and refusing to bear a weapon."
It's based on a true story, and quite an incredible story too. We fight for what we believe in, or we don't for the same.
We are introduced to a man, who lost some close friends from World War I, young friends. He's @ the cemetery, talking to them and intoxicated.
He's coming back home after his prayers, to his wife and two young boys.
The two boys are playing and fighting in the front of the house, on the lawn. @ one point one of them grabbed a brick nearby on the ground, and smashed his brother's forehead.
From that moment on, after realizing how easy it is to kill (his brother is like unconscious), and within starts to pray in front of a poster/prayer on the wall.
We see how broken his Dad is because of losing his young friends @ war, and hating himself to have survived and not his friends.
Alcohol is his rescue exit door, but not for his wife, and not for his two boys. War is a terrible thing, no doubt; it affects everyone in the chain and for very long times.
The young boy who almost killed his brother, will abide by the "rule" of you shall not kill.
Years later, he saved someone from a car accident and brought him to the hospital. There he met a young nurse and falls in love.
He wants to become a medic, and he's motivated to enlist in the army. His Dad is less than please; that goes without saying.
He finally joined the army, but not before asking his girlfriend's hand in marriage...she said yes.
He takes the bus, arrived @ camp, starts training, and he does not want to carry a rifle. He just want to be a medic @ the outbreak of WW II.
Tough times he is facing now with his Sergeant and with his fellow soldiers.
And it keeps getting worse and worse...
He finally get his wish, as a "conscientious objector", because of his father. ...Best to watch, I said plenty already.
Well, Mel Gibson directed it, the performances are superb, the story emotionally charged, and the combat scenes decapitating.
The cinematography is superb; @ one point there is a camera mounted on the rifle, and it offers a perspective that is unique following the soldier carrying the gun. It's like the rifle is alive, and moving sporadically and linearly @ the same time, and looking ahead stable, affirmative. When you'll see it you'll know what I mean.
The combats are fierce, no mercy, body parts, blood, grenades, bullets coming from all directions and buzzing over your eyes like bees wanting to put their darts into your eyeballs. And you'd better watch your other balls too. Brief, the entire surface of your body is exposed to all the elements of war kills. ...Visually, sideways, edgeways, audibly with force vengeance, ...just watch your entire self from toes to head and even from below and above. It's a total carnage, an apocalypse, the zone of no return, the world of hell.
The red blood color is accurate. And everything else still attached to it. This is not a virtual 3D tour, not a Disney ride. It's more real than dropping inside an erupting volcano with lava propelled high up into the air by the raging flames of intense crashing heat. ...Some' like that anyway. Not for young kids and not for all the ladies out there, the romantic type.
But the story itself of that young man, and what he believes in and what he did; that, is for all to know.
It's easy to get carry away, and describe how he saved seventy-five of his fellow soldiers by pure will and physical strength, and the tactic employed, and the faces of his fellow soldiers when they realized what he was doing, that I will say simply; you've got to see it. The savings are as devastating as the killings. The difference here is that they are saved and become survivors with less widows overall. ...Seventy-five of them. Just unbelievable!
There are other scenes I didn't even go near, and dramatically construed. It's a terrible war movie masterfully composed and acted.
Picture quality (Blu-ray): 85
Music score and sound effects: 95
Overall (all, film and acting and power and value and must see for its true story): 92
Final world: In war there are no winners, only widows, and saved survivors.
Mel Gibson is back on the 'podium'. I like Gibson, he has many kids (nine, known), from three women...I think. Plus he's a great actor and film's director. Bonus: Money (lots of it). ...And he has a cute girlfriend:
_______
I watched + Hacksaw Ridge last night:
"A biopic about World War II Army Medic Desmond Doss, who was awarded the Medal of Honour for his rescue efforts on the battlefields of Okinawa despite being a conscientious objector to the war and refusing to bear a weapon."
It's based on a true story, and quite an incredible story too. We fight for what we believe in, or we don't for the same.
We are introduced to a man, who lost some close friends from World War I, young friends. He's @ the cemetery, talking to them and intoxicated.
He's coming back home after his prayers, to his wife and two young boys.
The two boys are playing and fighting in the front of the house, on the lawn. @ one point one of them grabbed a brick nearby on the ground, and smashed his brother's forehead.
From that moment on, after realizing how easy it is to kill (his brother is like unconscious), and within starts to pray in front of a poster/prayer on the wall.
We see how broken his Dad is because of losing his young friends @ war, and hating himself to have survived and not his friends.
Alcohol is his rescue exit door, but not for his wife, and not for his two boys. War is a terrible thing, no doubt; it affects everyone in the chain and for very long times.
The young boy who almost killed his brother, will abide by the "rule" of you shall not kill.
Years later, he saved someone from a car accident and brought him to the hospital. There he met a young nurse and falls in love.
He wants to become a medic, and he's motivated to enlist in the army. His Dad is less than please; that goes without saying.
He finally joined the army, but not before asking his girlfriend's hand in marriage...she said yes.
He takes the bus, arrived @ camp, starts training, and he does not want to carry a rifle. He just want to be a medic @ the outbreak of WW II.
Tough times he is facing now with his Sergeant and with his fellow soldiers.
And it keeps getting worse and worse...
He finally get his wish, as a "conscientious objector", because of his father. ...Best to watch, I said plenty already.
Well, Mel Gibson directed it, the performances are superb, the story emotionally charged, and the combat scenes decapitating.
The cinematography is superb; @ one point there is a camera mounted on the rifle, and it offers a perspective that is unique following the soldier carrying the gun. It's like the rifle is alive, and moving sporadically and linearly @ the same time, and looking ahead stable, affirmative. When you'll see it you'll know what I mean.
The combats are fierce, no mercy, body parts, blood, grenades, bullets coming from all directions and buzzing over your eyes like bees wanting to put their darts into your eyeballs. And you'd better watch your other balls too. Brief, the entire surface of your body is exposed to all the elements of war kills. ...Visually, sideways, edgeways, audibly with force vengeance, ...just watch your entire self from toes to head and even from below and above. It's a total carnage, an apocalypse, the zone of no return, the world of hell.
The red blood color is accurate. And everything else still attached to it. This is not a virtual 3D tour, not a Disney ride. It's more real than dropping inside an erupting volcano with lava propelled high up into the air by the raging flames of intense crashing heat. ...Some' like that anyway. Not for young kids and not for all the ladies out there, the romantic type.
But the story itself of that young man, and what he believes in and what he did; that, is for all to know.
It's easy to get carry away, and describe how he saved seventy-five of his fellow soldiers by pure will and physical strength, and the tactic employed, and the faces of his fellow soldiers when they realized what he was doing, that I will say simply; you've got to see it. The savings are as devastating as the killings. The difference here is that they are saved and become survivors with less widows overall. ...Seventy-five of them. Just unbelievable!
There are other scenes I didn't even go near, and dramatically construed. It's a terrible war movie masterfully composed and acted.
Picture quality (Blu-ray): 85
Music score and sound effects: 95
Overall (all, film and acting and power and value and must see for its true story): 92
Final world: In war there are no winners, only widows, and saved survivors.
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It is absolutely stunning. Combined with fabulous music track and a story that my wife and I very much liked, it made for very joyous evening for us!
