Adapted from James Bradley's best-selling book about the six flag-raisers of Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood's timely film is a smart and deeply moving deconstruction of heroism and the uses/abuses of war heroes. James Bradley's own father, Navy combat medic Jack Bradley, was attached to a U.S. Marine company dispatched to Iwo Jima, the site of one of WWII's bloodiest battles, in 1945. Bradley began his book as a means to understand his father's lifelong silence about the war, Iwo Jima and, above all, that photo. The film opens in the present, with James Bradley (Tom McCarthy) interviewing veterans of Iwo after his father's death, then flashes back to the grueling, cross-co...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
130 mins