Released 19 years ago, Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece is considered one of the most realistic wars of all time

In 2006, Clint Eastwood surprised the movie world, with the letters of Yuo Jima, the war film as another. Unlike the usual Hollywood production, this feature film is rarely studied: one of the most bloody battles of the Pacific War of Japanese soldiers.

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Clint Eastwood Here is an interested enemy humanity, telling the story of Tadamich in Kuriba, a Japanese general who is responsible for the island’s defense, which brilliantly interpreted by Ken Wotanabe. Scenario written by Iris Yamashita, Paul Hague and on the basis of authentic letters of soldiers (Picture letters from the Commander -in -Chief Kuribayashi), explores the deeply human and tragic dimension of these men, which is sent to a certain death.

Two camps, two works

This movie is a colleague of our fathers who has been shot in the same year Clint Eastwood. Where this first part shows the conflict on the American side, Letters from IWO JIMA Complete the vision by offering a mirror perspective. This unique dipper in the history of American cinema offers a balanced and nuanced vision of confrontation, where, on both sides, men suffered, resisted, and suspected.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the film, which is welcomed by historians, is the excellent reconstruction of Japanese defensive tunnels and infrastructure. In particular, we will find an underground network 27 kilometers used by defenders, as long as possible to resist enemy advancement.

In the analysis offered by the media InternalHistorian John McManus gives the film a note of 10 to 9, appreciates its historical accuracy and the psychological complexity of Japanese fighters. For him, this diphich is an almost unique initiative.

“” “What makes our fathers and letters make memories a bit special from Jima, that I do not know any other circumstance that somehow depicts two different films that have this kind of extra work that you can truly have a good idea of ​​what this battle was in two respects.»

A slight success but noun

Despite its particular quality, the project did not meet the impending success in the theaters: Letters from IWO JIMA Has made about $ 68 million while The memories of our fathers Barely reached 65 million. Modest consequences that contradict the ambition of two works and emotional power.

In the history of war cinema, Letters from IWO JIMA However, it is distinguished as a essential work, as well as the fire in the lowlands of Con Ichikava, a Japanese terrible film, which also received the gaze of Japanese soldiers trapped between the two fires at the end of the war.

Authentic, immense and deeply human film Clint Eastwood Determines what can be a war film: it is no longer easy to glorify the characters, but an intimate examination of suffering, courage and despair, no matter how the camp is.

Letters of IWO JIMA and our fathers’ memories must be found on HBO Max.