Mmmhh.. What's new in my life? Well, I just watched an old movie of three years. It's Flags of Our Fathers. I bought the DVD two days ago when it was on sale in the supermarket. So lucky. I have been dying to watch the movie since last year, but could not find it anywhere near my boarding school.
The Flags of Our Fathers is a documentary, war-genre movie, based on a book of the same title about the seven men who were involved in the flag raising on top of Mount Suribachi in an island called Iwo Jima during the Second World War. The seven men were Sgt. Mike Strank, Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes, Cpl. Harlon Block, Pfc. Franklin Sousley, Sgt. Hank Hansen, and Pfc. Ralph Ignatowski, as well as their Navy Corpsman, PhM2. John "Doc" Bradley. The nickname "Doc" is a colloqual address for a corpsman (medical care-giver available in many fleet or Marine units on extended deployment), commonly used in the Marine US Corps as a sign of respect.
Instead of a linear storyline like the book, the film is told in media res, with events of the Battle shown through a series of flashbacks. Not only the events of the battle, the movie also shows the after effects that of the raising flag events on their lives. The writter of the book, James Bradley, is actually the very own son of one of the flag raisers - exactly John Bradley.
I am truly moved every time I watch this movie. Ít is a good reminder to us that superheroes exist only in comic books and cartoon movies.
I really think you guys should see this movie if you haven't. It's really good. And in case you didn't know, this movie is the best companion to the Letters From Iwo Jima, a movie about the same battle in the Japanese's point of view.
P.S. The actor Ryan Phillipe is soooooo good looking!!!! XD <3
Ryan, how about some asian chick? :-*
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