Different Depictions of Warsaving Private Ryan and The Patriot

Different Depictions of War Moviemakers have the power to portray the world the way they see it. And because there are so many different directors out there, we as viewers, are presented with a variety of interpretations. If a director sees love as a game, then it is so (at least until their hour and 45-minute tale of two playful lovers comes to an end). If he or she believes society to be corrupt then …

…when comparing it to Saving Private Ryan. Never have I seen a war movie so disturbing. When I see that high angle of Omaha Beach littered with bodies, it makes me wonder what it was all for. This is where Spielberg succeeds. By recreating World War II so realistically, his viewers see what he saw from the beginning: the inexcusable deaths of so many men, and the insanity of the war that they died for.