Hacksaw Ridge Historical Analysis

Hacksaw Ridge

For my report, I am reviewing the historic accuracy of Hacksaw Ridge and comparing it to the actual life of military solider Desmond Doss. The movie Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson, gives a very accurate representation of the life of Desmond Doss. This movie shows very true events that happened in Doss’s life that are only slightly exaggerated by the Hollywood film company Summit Entertainment. Some true events that happened during Doss’s life in WWII were not included in the movie because of them being so absurd that the audience might not believe it was real. All together this movie shows accurate history from Desmond’s earlier life and war life.

Hacksaw Ridge is story about Christian Pacifist Desmond Doss born February
I've pictured Christ for savin' life, I wanna be like Christ go savin' life instead of takin' life and that's the reason I take up medicine," ("Hacksaw Ridge vs the True Story of Desmond Doss” par. 2).

This moment helped Doss expand his religious beliefs and strengthen them. He began after this reading Bible more frequently and respecting the Lord's holy day on Saturday, the Sabbath day.

One of the most defining moments in Doss’s life came in his teenage years. Doss’s father and uncle were both drunk one night and started to argue. The argument then escalated to a point where Doss’s father pulled a gun out on Doss’s uncle. Doss’s mother broke up the fight and made Doss hide the gun while she called the police. Doss came back to see his father in the back of a police car being taken away. Doss believes that this situation would have ended deadly if his mother never stepped in, and so he vowed to never touch a gun again after that moment. The movie shows this scene with a slight twist. In the movie Doss’s father threatens to shoot his mother instead of his uncle (who wasn't even included in the movie). Doss then removes the gun from his father's hand and makes his father realize what he
On that Island lyed the cliffside of Hacksaw Ridge. In the movie it does not really explain the motive of the U.S. attack there. The U.S. though wanted the cliffside during WWII to use it as a military air base to invade mainland Japan. This battle in the end turned out to be one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. The U.S. soldiers were forced to use cargo nets to scale the cliffside to fight the Japanese troops. The movie though leaves out that Doss, who is now a Private, actually helped set up these nets on the cliff. This was a very dangerous task because the U.S. troops only cover was the smoke of nearby artillery strikes. Before the grand assault up the mountain, Doss and other medics were forced to remove their medic arm bands. This is because Japanese troops targeted medics thinking that it would demoralize neighboring troops knowing that no one is there to help them anymore. As the U.S. troops finally got up the cliff and the battle begun, there was heavy casualties on both sides of the battle. After hours of fighting American troops did retreat after heavy mortar, artillery and machine gun fire which left dozens of wounded men to face death or be captured by the Japanese. Doss realized that he needed to stay up there if these men were going to