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Title: The Cold Of War
Review: I, too, think it's better than Saving Private Ryan, for the simple fact that it only addresses the issue of "the pain of war", not about "earning the rights". After reading Stephen Ambrose's "Citizen Soldier", where I first learnt the details of the Hurtigen Forest, I was just too moved by this movie. One can feel the temperature, the horrid condition, the "bright shining lies", the "zing" of the bullets hitting nearby and the NCO war of the Hurtigen come-onslaught. Sometimes it forces you to think why didn't Manning just commit an actual Section 8, why did men fight under such hopeless condition and not desert? I'm sorry, I never did think it's because it earned anyone any rights. I guess Ambrose did put it rather well, too, that, these men fight because they don't want to lose that precious self.
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