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2006, USA

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Genres:

Action | Drama | History | War

Actors:

Ryan Phillippe		John "Doc" Bradley
Jesse Bradford		Rene Gagnon
Adam Beach		Ira Hayes
John Benjamin Hickey		Keyes Beech
John Slattery		Bud Gerber
Barry Pepper		Mike Strank
Jamie Bell		Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski
Paul Walker		Hank Hansen
Robert Patrick		Colonel Chandler Johnson
Neal McDonough		Captain Severance
Melanie Lynskey		Pauline Harnois
Thomas McCarthy		James Bradley
Chris Bauer		Commandant Vandergrift
Judith Ivey		Belle Block
Myra Turley		Madeline Evelley

Directors:

Clint Eastwood |

Certification:

New Zealand:R15 | Finland:K-15 | Philippines:R-13 | UK:15 | Brazil:16 ... show all

IMDB Rating:

7.20 out of 10 (14583 votes)

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Storyline

Taglines:	1: A Single Shot Can End The War 2: Every Soldier Stands Beside A Hero 3: The real heroes are the ones left on the island. 4: All it takes to win is the right picture. 5: They fight for their country but they die for their friends.
Plot Summary:	In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.
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Flags of Our Fathers review

posted on 18 December 2007

The best moments of “Flags of Our Fathers,” Clint Eastwood’s latest entry in the World War II genre, come when we see the island of Iwo Jima at night. Flares light up the barren, bombed landscape. The pops of gunfire and cries of soldiers create a disturbing rhythm. Japanese soldiers materialize out of the dark like specters and attack. In these scenes American soldiers are alone, separated from their friends by the darkness and the foreign landscape. These scenes are grim and frightening. They’re also somewhat unreal. These moments remind us of Eastwood’s power to create mythic ambiance. There is no better director when it comes to subtle atmospheric films, so why Eastwood chose to direct this obvious and simple retelling of James Bradley’s book is beyond me. His talents quickly become buried under the heavy-handed pathos of the story.

The film achronologically tells the true story of three of the soldiers who were photographed raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. The famous picture gave people back home hope and pride in the American spirit and became a driving image that helped sell war bonds.

According to the film, the three men had very little in common apart from the war. Actor Ryan Phillippe plays Doc Bradley, a dedicated and noble navy corpsman. Jesse Bradford is Rene Gagnon, a simple and somewhat incompetent soldier who was assigned as runner during the battle. Gagnon attempts to capitalize on his celebrity status. Adam Beach plays Ira Hayes, a Native American marine whose war experiences have left him devastated and resistant to being portrayed as a hero.

After these men took part in one of the most violent and gruesome battles against the Japanese, they were shipped back to the United States as heroes. We watch as they struggle to reconcile the horrors of war with their newfound celebrity status and the adoration of the American people.

The film’s biggest problem is that the lead characters are fairly two-dimensional. The actors try like crazy to flesh out these characters, but the screenplay will have none of it. All of the “back home” scenes play with a false sense of importance. The music swells, crowds surge, politicians bark insincere rhetoric. The three men gaze at inanimate objects with longing and sadness before the film plunges us back into war scenes.

We patiently wait for these sentimental moments to end so we can return to the stunning battle sequences. It’s particularly impressive to witness the recreation of the war machine. Rows of battleship race toward the island. Hellcats blaze through the air. It’s ironic that, in this day and age, filmmakers can be so technically accurate when it comes to recreating the past yet so poor at creating multifaceted characters.

“Flags of Our Fathers” pretends to tell us who these soldiers really were. Writers William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis believe that they are contrasting the men’s lives with their heroic image. Sadly, what they present to the viewer is yet another fabricated image, and one that is equally false.