Analysis of Film Saving Private Ryan

Analysis of Film Saving Private Ryan

Saving private Ryan is a film based on the horrific mission of a group

of soldiers who risk live and death to save one man private James

Ryan. The film begins on D-day when Private James Ryan now an old war

veteran visits the war memorial of his hero and the main character in

the play Captain John Miller who is played by Tom Hanks. The old war

veteran Whilst paying his respects breaks down into a flashback and

find himself going back to June 6th, 1944, when Military forces

converged on the beaches of Normandy for one of the most decisive

battles of World War Two. America would call this a victory. History

would call it D-Day. But for Captain Miller and his squad of young

soldiers, the day after the landing on Omaha Beach would change all of

their lives. They would get a special order from Washington ordering

them to go on a personnel mission to save one life, One soldier who

tragically lost three of his brothers in combat. The soldiers realise

this is not a simple mission to save a life but a test of their honour

and duty. They're sole obsession-and their last hope for redemption.

Upon arriving at Omaha Beach Captain Miller was faced with many

problems. The Germans were awaiting the arrival of the American forces

and attacked the ships landing on the beach before the troops were

even able to exit the boats. Many of Millers men were lost on the

beach along with many men who thought for America. Miller lead his

mean along a wall on the beach and over took German forces to escape

with most of this troop in tact. What he didn't realise was that on of

the men lost on the beach was a Private Ryan. Captai...

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...s reached his goal and Ryan would make it home. I

thought this film was very intresting and well acted out. I thought it

made a very good point about some of the difficult decisions facing

the men in the middle of a hostile environment in another country and

the bravery shown by many men in the heat of battle. I can't say if I

was placed in the same position if I would be able to do the same

thing as some of those men. To risk the lives of several men to save

the life of one is a very difficult decision to make. Especially when

no one even knew if Private Ryan had even made it off the beach alive

or if he was killed in battle. I believe that if I were one of the men

with the mission of saving one man just because his the U.S. Army

didn't want to tell his mother, I would have a serious problem with

obeying those orders.