License: GPL
This was a good movie. Perhaps Iām guilty of heresy in saying this, but it was not a great movie. It did come as somewhat of a surprise to me that the movie was about the flag raising (a humdrum chore when it was done) photograph, not about Iwo Jima or ghe marine corps or uch about the war (apart from what lead to the flag raising ā mostly to provide a contrast to the the actual flag raising. The impression I took away from it, the thing that made the most impact on me, was the sheer desperation of the fund raising, trying to get a weary and cynical population to buy war bonds.
Clint Eastwood is to be commended on an unusual take on the sordid details of war ā there are no drum beats going in this movie.