Film · Republic · 1949
Pass it on
Sands of Iwo Jima
59Watch it awake.
The training is the point, and he does not live to be the picture.
The review
John Wayne plays a sergeant who trains boys for the Pacific and does not know how to be anything but hard. The training is the work, and I believed the work. Softness gets to him. It gets there too late to be of any use to him.
The flag is the image people kept. He is killed before the war is finished for him. I will not describe it. Not a picture for a young child. Older teens can watch if you say the hardness that made the unit is also why he ends with almost nothing that was his. The photograph is not a substitute for the man.
Journal
Keep Sands of Iwo Jima in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Shenandoah
71 instead of 59
Shenandoah is still a war film, and it scores 71 instead of 59. What you gain is household: A widower and his children are the whole principle.
The eight
- 8Industry
Training the boys is the job, and the Pacific needs it done.
- 3Household
He has the hardness and almost no life outside it.
- 4Piety
Nothing stops the hardness until it is too late to matter.
- 8Courage
He spends himself training them and is killed before the end.
- 8Republic
The unit and the flag are the debt, and he pays with his life.
- 4Temperance
The hardness never lets up while it could still have helped him.
- 6Truth
He dies with the war unfinished, and the film allows that.
- 6Stewardship
The men are trained and left. He does not get to see them after.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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