What Is The Theme Of Saving Private Ryan
‘Saving Private Ryan’, directed by Steven Spielberg is a film set during World War II. During an invasion of Normandy, two brothers are killed followed by a third when fighting the Japanese. US Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall sends out 8 men with a mission to find the fourth brother, James F. Ryan to lift some of the grief of the mother. This core of the film is about the journey of this unit travelling across dangerous Nazi territory in the impossible search of Private Ryan. During this mission, the men question the reason of risking 8 soldiers’ lives for the small chance that this one brother is alive and why he should get a free ticket out over the rest of them. It is a film filled with the brutal truths of the history of our world and the courage shown of those before us.
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Many of the soldiers were out there fighting with knowledge of a very small chance of survival due to the loyalty they feel for their country. Even when the unit of 8 men was sent to find Private Ryan, they knew it was unfair and risking all of their lives for one soldier, they did it because they were loyalty to the soldier in command above them. Even when they found Private Ryan, he didn’t want the free ticket out that they were offering him because he was loyal to his own unit who had already lost many men, so would’ve been putting them in more danger. After a while they all finally agreed to stay there and help them overcome the next big attack before taking Private Ryan back home. They knew this was putting all of their lives at major risk but they were all in it together as each soldier was as loyal to each other as the
Many of the soldiers were out there fighting with knowledge of a very small chance of survival due to the loyalty they feel for their country. Even when the unit of 8 men was sent to find Private Ryan, they knew it was unfair and risking all of their lives for one soldier, they did it because they were loyalty to the soldier in command above them. Even when they found Private Ryan, he didn’t want the free ticket out that they were offering him because he was loyal to his own unit who had already lost many men, so would’ve been putting them in more danger. After a while they all finally agreed to stay there and help them overcome the next big attack before taking Private Ryan back home. They knew this was putting all of their lives at major risk but they were all in it together as each soldier was as loyal to each other as the