03-29-2021, 09:29 PM
(03-29-2021, 05:31 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Sorry to bring this thread back, but I was finally able to watch SPR for the first time, this weekend.
The *ONLY* attachment my ancestry has to any war, is that my grandfather was an ambulance driver for the Italian Army, during WWII, in Russia (and the only story that he left {not sure if it's true or not}, was that he went off camp to refuel the ambulance once night, came back about an hour later and his entire unit was dead and all equipment either taken or smashed. So he spent the rest of his days before heading back to Italy, being tended to by Russians and he fell in love with Communism... but my grandfather was apparently not the brightest bulb of the lot {he passed before I was born, so I have 0 first-hand knowledge of him as a person} and his, "love of Communism," was completely misplaced and he didn't realize or acknowledge the failings in that system, like all socio-economic systems have), so I have little to no direct feelings or background/history of roots in WWII.
I have seen snippets of the opening scene (rather, the second scene), numerous times over the past few years (on top 10 lists and music videos, etc.), but actually sitting through the entire 25 minutes and seeing what I saw... the typewriter scene had me pause about halfway through it, as it fully sunk-in just the massive amount of loss of life on that day and how much of it was just unnecessary... I teared up quite a bit before continuing.
I was also shattered at the end of the film (the final scene, back at Normandy) and throughout the credits, merely because I appreciate so, so much, that I never have to go through a day of what all those young men did, some 77 years ago... I am forever grateful to those that go off to war and serve their country, even if it is just murder, death and killing in the end; if it will put a stop to atrocities and tyrants, then they are all winners in my book.
Easily one of the 5 best films I have ever seen, just a wonderfully-crafted piece of cinema; if you want an enjoyable, but still relatively-serious depiction of WWII, watch the Dirty Dozen. But if you want gritty, truthful and the starkness of WWII, you will watch SPR. Absolutely criminal that it didn't win Best Picture. Criminal.
Don't be sorry for bringing this thread back Truck, never saw it before. Great men need to be remembered and yeah, SPR is
also a great movie that blew my mind the first time I saw it and the Normandy scene is especially mind blowing how those
brave men ran onto that beach. Insane. God bless their souls.
