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In Reply to: "Letters from Iwo Jima." Definitely worth posted by tinear on January 29, 2007 at 16:24:20:

...as a set.
'Flags of Our Fathers' first, from the American perspective.
And then 'Letters from Iwo Jima' highlights the same battle from the Japanese perspective.

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First off, have you seen it? I understand your point, of course, but my - tinear 05:27:08 02/01/07 (0)
comment referred to the rather obvious fact that SOMEONE was killing all those Marines. The scale of the film but more importantly the activities of the Japanese which resulted in so many American casualties laregely are absent.
The wave after wave of suicide charges, for instance, are not shown, only hinted at and my impression was it was small-scale. Not so.
Also, there is no glee when successful attacks, which was the case in the beginning, occur. We know that's inaccurate, too.
Eastwood made some decisions to do all in his power to make the Japanese sympathetic but in doing so, he used the "knife" too widely, resulting in lopping off key organs of his creation. These were not Japanese scum but rather elite fighters. Have you ever seen an American film where the Marines all sit around looking sullen and defeated before or during even the most fearsome, impossible struggles?
No.
Like I said, good performances and not much else.

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