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Thematically ambitious and emotionally complex, Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers is an intimate epic with much to say about war and the nature of heroism in America. Based on the non-fiction bestseller by James Bradley (with Ron Powers), and adapted by Million Dollar Baby screenwriter Paul Haggis (Jarhead screenwriter William Broyles Jr. wrote an earlier draft that was abandoned when Eastwood signed on to direct), this isn't so much a conventional war movie as it is a thought-provoking meditation on our collective need for heroes, even at the expense of those we deem heroic. In telling the story of the six men (five Marines, one Navy medic) who raised the American flag of victory on the battle-ravaged Japanese island of Iwo Jima on February 23rd, 1945, Eastwood takes us deep into the horror of war (in painstakingly authentic Iwo Jima battle scenes) while emphasizing how three of the surviving flag-raisers (played by Adam Beach, Ryan Phillippe, and Jesse Bradford) became reluctant celebrities – and resentful pawns in a wartime publicity campaign – after their flag-raising was immortalized by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal in the most famous photograph in military history.

As the surviving flag-raisers reluctantly play their public roles as "the heroes of Iwo Jima" during an exhausting (but clearly necessary) wartime bond rally tour, Flags of Our Fathers evolves into a pointed study of battlefield valor and misplaced idolatry, incorporating subtle comment on the bogus nature of celebrity, the trauma of battle, and the true meaning of heroism in wartime. Wisely avoiding any direct parallels to contemporary history, Eastwood allows us to draw our own conclusions about the Iwo Jima flag-raisers and how their postwar histories (both noble and tragic) simultaneously illustrate the hazards of exploited celebrity and society's genuine need for admirable role models during times of national crisis. Flags of Our Fathers defies the expectations of those seeking a more straightforward war-action drama, but it's richly satisfying, impeccably crafted film that manages to be genuinely patriotic (in celebrating the camaraderie of soldiers in battle) while dramatizing the ultimate futility of war. Eastwood's follow-up film, Letters from Iwo Jima, examines the Iwo Jima conflict from the Japanese perspective. --Jeff Shannon

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Flags of Our Fathers (Two-Disc Special Edition) [HD DVD] Customer Reviews

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Great Expectations Unfulfilled

With Clint Eastwood as director and Steven Spielberg as producer I was really expecting to watch a movie that would be on par with Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, I was severely disappointed!

Let me start by saying that I have the utmost respect for those that fought on the Battle if Iwo Jima, I can't imagine the real horror it must have been to be there.

In telling the story of the "flag", which was probably very accurate I felt that the movie was very disjointed in its bounces between timeframes. From the battle to the fund raising events, back and forth, back and forth I was not able to enjoy any continuity in the story. Just when I was starting to bite my nails in a combat scene it would jump into some stadium full of people and a reenactment of the flag raising. I would slump in my seat and wonder why I had let the tension build up inside only to be let down like this.

Watching a drunken American Indian rant and rave throughout the movie was most disappointing. While that may have been the fact, I didn't find the portrayal anything but depressing, which in many ways was the way that I left the theater, depressed, wondering in whose pocket my $10 would land.

I'm guessing if you read the book and saw the movie you might be very happy with the performance. My expectations far outweighed this movies ability to deliver any type of gripping story, fulfilling battle scenes (as both director and producer have delivered in the past) or feeling that at the end I was a better person for having watched such a sad reel of film.

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