Saving Private Ryan Character Analysis

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In the eyes of critics, Saving Private Ryan has been renowned to be the most iconic and well directed war movie in film history. However, the millennial generation remained uninformed of the magnitude of the film. Throughout the movie, soldiers sacrifice their lives to save the life of other men. However, some soldiers sacrifice by choice while others do under the influence of hierarchy. When the remaining soldiers out of the eight find Private Ryan, he refuses to go back home for “[he] was with the only brother [he] had left” (Spielberg). Ryan, under his own influence, decides to risk his own life to thwart off the Germans from the bridge with his remaining comrades. The bond of brotherhood with which developed between soldiers during the

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