Saving Private Ryan vs. The Patriot Moviemakers have the power to portray the world as they see it. Since there are so many different directors out there, we as viewers, are presented with a variety of interpretations. I am a gigantic movie buff, and have therefore watched every war movie directed. If one director views war as completely disastrous, while yet another sees glory in it, we would find ourselves viewing two contrasting depictions of …showed first 75 words of 1174 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1174 total…of this movie when weighing it against Saving Private Ryan. I have never watched a war movie so disturbing. When I glimpse that high angle of Omaha Beach littered with bodies, it makes me wonder what it was all for. Here Spielberg succeeds. By recreating World War II so realistically, we see what he saw from the beginning: the inexcusable deaths of so many men, and the insanity of the war that they died for.