Letters From Iwo Jima Summary
There are certain assumptions that American audiences, perhaps without realizing it, are likely to bring to a movie about World War II. The combat picture has been a Hollywood staple for so long — since before the actual combat was over — that it can sometimes seem as if every possible story has already been told. Or else as if each individual story, from G.I. Joe to Private Ryan, is at bottom a variation on familiar themes: victory against the odds, brotherhood under fire, sacrifice for a noble cause. But of course there are other, contrasting stories, a handful of which form the core of ’s harrowing, contemplative new movie and the companion to his which was released this fall.
Letters From Iwo Jima Summary
Letters From Iwo Jima Sixty-one years ago, U.S. MORE > $13.95 Regularly $19.98 buy now Sixty years after the end of World War II, Japanese researchers arrive on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima to explore the caves and tunnels built by their soldiers to defend against American attack forces.