Film Profile: Flags of Our Fathers - (2006)
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"A single shot can end the war."
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure,
- Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
- Subtitled | Widescreen | Duration: 155 Mins
Overview:
Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph of US servicemen raising the Stars and Stripes above the Pacific island of Iwo Jima is the starting point for Clint Eastwood's Second World War epic. Part war movie, part deconstruction of heroism, it follows three of the group - marines Rene Gagnon and Ira Hayes (Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach), and Navy corpsman "Doc" Bradley (Ryan Phillippe) - as they're sent home to bolster the fundraising effort. While these men struggle to cope with post-traumatic stress and their reluctant status as heroes, Eastwood reveals the complex interaction of war, propaganda and real lives behind the famous image. Based on a bestselling memoir by Bradley's son, this is a technically accomplished yet ponderously worthy film that quickly abandons its probing remit to fall back on misty-eyed platitudes about war as hell and the camaraderie of soldiers under fire. Eastwood's Oscar-nominated companion piece, Letters from Iwo Jima, depicts events from the Japanese perspective.
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