Flags of our Fathers (US Movie)

Part 1 of Clint Eastwood's opus on the Iwo Jima battle focuses on the the experiences of a group of soldiers involved in the flag raising on top of of the highest point of the island battlefield, Mt Surabashi.
The war went on and to the US population, the price, in terms of personal sacrifices is seemly too high, and they are tired of the war that seems will not end. The PR machinery of the US war effort desperately needed needed heroes that the population will accept and be motivated to continue to support the war.

As such, these group of soldiers were ordered to return home as heroes to be paraded before the US population. The matter of the flag raising has a little complication in that the flags were actually raised twice; the first flag was smaller and there were no photographs taken at that point. A second and larger flag was raised and this time a photographer was present to capture the historic moment; albeit, a little staged.

The soldiers captured in the photographs were not the original flag raisers but now, in the interest of raising a flagging population morale, they must pretend that the first flag raising never took place.
This, sets the stage of Clint Eastwoods's story, "Flags of our Fathers".

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Rating: 2/5
This movie was over-rated and pretty much run-of-the-mill. The focus was on a group of overly-conscious soldiers who were eating themselves up inside over the fact that they were not the original flag raisers that the PR machinery were making them out to be. There is no big picture here. It's about simple people worrying about a simple matter in total disregard of why the charade.