I just saw this movie. It's OK, but much overrated. The story is interesting, but not compelling. Basic facts and figures are ignored. Eastwood never gives you a sense of how many Japanese were on the island. Moreover, he depicts them totally sympathetically, and not the ruthless monsters they were in China, Philippines, Korea and every other country and territory they occupied (not to mention their treatment of American POW's). Japan's Imperial soldiers come across as a bunch of misguided Boy Scouts. That was not the case. I don't condemn Japan or Japanese culture, but that country in the 1920's and 30's was akin to Nazi Germany -- nothing good there.
2007-01-26
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