Film · DreamWorks · 2006
Flags of Our Fathers
65Worth an evening.
The picture the country needed, set next to the men the picture used. Sit with it.
Pass it on
The review
Clint Eastwood's film is about the second flag, the one in Joe Rosenthal's photograph, and about the men pulled off the island to sell bonds because the country was tired and the Treasury was not. John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes are not the same kind of survivor. One is quiet. One wants the attention. One is a Pima man the tour will use and not keep.
Watch it with Letters from Iwo Jima, not instead of it. Older teens and adults. Say out loud that a true photograph can still be put to a use the dead did not agree to. If a child only knows the statue, this is the film that puts the statue back on a hill with a body count.
Journal
Keep Flags of Our Fathers in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Letters from Iwo Jima
76 instead of 65
Letters from Iwo Jima is still a war film, and it scores 76 instead of 65. What you gain is household: The letters are how a household survives a man it will not see again.
The eight
- 6Industry
The bond tour is a job they did not enlist for, and they are bad at it in different ways.
- 5Household
Home is a stage. The families get the poster, not the man.
- 4Piety
The war bond is a civic rite. Reverence in this film is mostly official.
- 8Courage
The climbing of the hill is courage. So is the man who cannot sell it afterward.
- 8Republic
A republic at war needs a picture. The film asks what the picture costs the living in it.
- 6Temperance
One of them drinks because the tour will not stop. The film does not call that color.
- 8Truth
It keeps the famous frame and the men who were not in it, including the ones who died.
- 7Stewardship
What it hands a house is suspicion of any image that arrives already famous.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Flags of Our Fathers · 65IMDb tt0418689
