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Some of the reviewers have a problem with the love story aspect of the film. They’re likely men who want a straight war movie that follows a well-documented historical theme. This was never intended to be a documentary-type movie. It was written to show how the war affected Americans-friends, lovers, families-they all suffered losses due to the war. You can’t have a complete war film without spotlighting how the war affects those who stayed behind and the losses they also dealt with.
It did seem as though the writer tried to cram in as much focus as he could on a variety of important points: a black man’s contributions, how nurses stepped up in a crisis and experienced their own version of war, the insufficiencies of information to the nation’s leaders, etc. If all we ever see is the military and its fighting and we don’t see the repercussions of the war back home, we haven’t seen the whole story.
Yes, the dialog and behaviors seem cheesy to modern viewers who don’t want to buy those cheesy friendships and love triangles. But they existed then, as they do now. The only part of that which aggravated me is Affleck’s character coming back “from the dead” and acting like a spoilt little boy because the love of his life and his best friend ended up in a romance. She tried to explain to him “we thought you were dead” and he still thought she should have-what? Been psychic enough to know he’d show back up? I’ve never cared much for Affleck as an actor and his character’s self-confidence in this movie was rather arrogant.
The action sequences were very realistic, the harbor full of floating bodies of dead sailors, the ships burning, sinking, many survivors wounded beyond recognition, the nurses overwhelmed. At one point a young nurse is told to do something and she stands there and cries “I don’t know what to do”. I remember watching the movie when it first came out and I thought at the time that the director was very ambitious to try and deal with a love story and a war story at the same time, weaving the two together. At times it worked. How do you shift from a warm, fuzzy love story to the horror of war? Not easy.
I think people would have been more comfortable with the movie had it gone heavily as a romantic drama with a war background or a straight war movie. The sense of nostalgia is overall very romantic, farm boy best friends grow up and go to war together, naïve Americans clucking over the war in Europe but not affected by it at home, the immediate patriotism after the attack on Pearl. The movie is not with its flaws. The back and forth between romance and war has you feeling jacked around like a ping pong game but if you can live with that, overall it’s worth watching. The film did an excellent job of portraying the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. If the reality of that day was anything like in the movie, all I can say is God bless those souls.
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