Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: RyanSengara
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: RyanSengara
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Bumrush99
Saving Private Ryan. The story may have been cheesy but the battles left me shell shocked for a full day after watching it.
The story wasn't cheesy at all. In fact, the message the story gives was the most significant of any war movie ever made.
Yeah considering a similar event (4 brothers serving on a single ship that was destroyed), left parents with no kids, enacted one of the most important policies in WW2.
That's not the central message of the film.
It really surprises me that so many people miss it.
Never said it was the central message, I'm just saying thats what the movie was loosely based around..
But what is the central message oh wise one? :roll:
No need to roll your eyes. I'm not trying to act superior here.
The central message of SPR is that we are all Private Ryan. Ryan was just a euphemism for all of us. We all need to "earn this."
A message my WWII veteran father tried over and over to instill in his children. And it never quite sunk in until I watched this movie decades after he died.
Exactly. As much as people like Saving Private Ryan for the action, it's still underrated because few people feel the full impact of that theme.
The central theme is simple to say -- earn the salvation of those who have sacrificed so that I might thrive -- but difficult to live.
It holds special significance to me as a soldier, because I lost good friends who were also good men during our tour in Iraq. Jimmy Ryan is a metaphor for all Americans who must earn it by making the most of the freedoms that past soldiers provided.
For me, the theme extends beyond the literal to include others who have sacrificed. I work hard so that I can earn the benefits rendered at the expense of my parents who sacrificed by coming to America and working long hours so that I could go to good schools and otherwise, have an easier time growing up.