dmitrology
Dec 20, 2016
dmitrology
Dec 20, 2016
Undergraduate / Review on the "Saving Private Ryan" Spielberg movie [4]
UVA What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised you and how?Critique?
A soldier, sitting alone on a stair, contemplating his failure as anguish and self-disgust materialized and the sorrows of war cascaded down his cheek.
In "Saving Private Ryan," Spielberg not only characterized the men of World War 2 who emerged through the fire and brimstone that is war, but also those who could not cross over the hot coals and embers; thus succumbing to the human emotion that is fear.
This film surprisingly transformed a grueling battle into a beautiful allegory of human experience and emotional conflict. Bullets traveling over and through bravely fortified soldiers, A coward running through death incarnate, and acts of mercy being paid in kind with treachery. If art is the creative application of the human experience into creating something meaningful, then this film is a veritable masterpiece.
An american soldier, Mellish, grappled with a german soldier on the second floor of a war torn french home. As Upham, a terrified translator, stepped over the fragmented bricks of a felled wall, he was aware of the clash taking place above him. The frames rapidly changed from Mellish slowly losing his grip on life to Upham collapsing as he attempted to summit the stair, unable to rise to the challenge.
The pseudo-limbo that is this metaphorical "stair," represented decision. Regardless of what we tell ourselves, in life, there is always another step. We don't always get to pick what situations that we are put into, and I find this utterly terrifying, however when faced with immense hardship we do get to pick what decisions we make, and I know that when the time comes I will overcome fear and summit that stair.
UVA What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised you and how?Critique?
A soldier, sitting alone on a stair, contemplating his failure as anguish and self-disgust materialized and the sorrows of war cascaded down his cheek.
In "Saving Private Ryan," Spielberg not only characterized the men of World War 2 who emerged through the fire and brimstone that is war, but also those who could not cross over the hot coals and embers; thus succumbing to the human emotion that is fear.
This film surprisingly transformed a grueling battle into a beautiful allegory of human experience and emotional conflict. Bullets traveling over and through bravely fortified soldiers, A coward running through death incarnate, and acts of mercy being paid in kind with treachery. If art is the creative application of the human experience into creating something meaningful, then this film is a veritable masterpiece.
An american soldier, Mellish, grappled with a german soldier on the second floor of a war torn french home. As Upham, a terrified translator, stepped over the fragmented bricks of a felled wall, he was aware of the clash taking place above him. The frames rapidly changed from Mellish slowly losing his grip on life to Upham collapsing as he attempted to summit the stair, unable to rise to the challenge.
The pseudo-limbo that is this metaphorical "stair," represented decision. Regardless of what we tell ourselves, in life, there is always another step. We don't always get to pick what situations that we are put into, and I find this utterly terrifying, however when faced with immense hardship we do get to pick what decisions we make, and I know that when the time comes I will overcome fear and summit that stair.