Flags of Our Fathers

This movie came out in 2006. It was directed by Clint Eastwood. The starring actor are Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach. This movie portrays The Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 1945, a photo was taken of six soldiers raising the American flag on top of a mountain on Iwo Jima. This movie follows the lives of the soldiers in the photo. This is the American side. There is another side story. It is the Japan side. The title is "Letters from Iwo Jima." It portrays the battle through the eyes of young Japanese soldiers. The original is a Non-fiction book called “Flags of Our Fathers” by James Bradley and Ron Powers.

Story Line

John "Doc" Bradley was called a hero by the American people. He was one of the soldiers who raised the American flag on top of a mountain on Iwo Jima and faught as a medic with the U.S. Marine Corps. But he didn't talk about the photograph even to his family. His son, James begins to search what was happen of on Iwo-Jima…

Impression

I learned important thing. War includes each viewpoint, and each has justice. So the viewpoint of our own country and the enemys, are necessary to understand war equally. And I feel antiwar without any conditions. We need to watch this movie and "Letters from Iwo Jima." And we should learn at war again. Of caurse we can't watch and feel real terrible war. So we haven't the image that war is afraid. This movie wants you to watch because it is portrays more realistically than other war movies.