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Flags of Our Fathers
Drama, History, War
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to morally complex war dramas about the gap between battlefield reality and patriotic myth.
- Tone
- bleak, melancholic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- reflection, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- war memory, public image, survivor guilt, heroism, exploitation
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century wartime, Pacific island battlefield and postwar American communities
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