Flags of Our Fathers
- heavy
- intense
Heavy, steady, measured drama / war, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Our read · Flags of Our Fathers (2006) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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