Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan describes the search for Private Ryan (Matt Damon) in WWII to bring him home after his other three brothers died in the war. Tom Hanks plays the Sergent in charge of the group sent to retrieve him from the middle of Germany. Along the way the horrors of war are shown as the men in this group die along the way. Eventually they meet up with Private Ryan and then have to wait for reinforcements to bring him home, but they have to defend a bridge first. Thus insues a very bloody battle killing many of the characters, including Tom Hanks, before reinforcements come to defeat the enemy. Private Ryan is brought home.

This film was meant to show the many horrors that come about during the war and  horrible situations that the soldiers had to fight through, but it also shows the determination of the soldiers to fulfill their duty of bringing the man they have never met home, even at the cost of most, if not all of their lives. I believe in the end only one of the origional group survives. This movie was likely an anti-war movie showing the horrors that soldiers faced while fighting in the war whereas Slaughterhouse Five was also anti-war, and showed the horrors of soldiers who were captured. Mary O'hare would aprove of this because it does not glorify war at all.