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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
Eastwood again, this time on an epic and complicated scale as he tells the story of the men who accidentally became heroes by raising the American flag on Iwo Jima's Mt. Suribachi, providing photographer Joe Rosenthal—and the American public with an inspirational image just when they needed it most. The film is part battle epic, part memory piece and, most importantly, a devastating portrait of the celebrity system in its early days. The survivors of the flag raising are brought home, put on tour to sell war bonds and suffer from feeling like imposters while the real war heroes—the anonymous grunts who are still fighting and dying in war—go unheralded. Eastwood mixes savagery and regret in ways both morally instructive and mythologically devastating.
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