Hacksaw Ridge Review

[BE Mike]

This is an excellent movie, but not for the faint of heart. There is a LOT of blood and guts, etc. More than any previous war movie I can remember seeing. Of course there are a few technical errors, but nothing outrageous that I noted. My wife is an action movie buff, but she said she almost couldn't handle the battle scenes. She was tempted to walk out, but stuck with it. Why do we wait so long to have the movie industry tell these WWII stories? It doesn't portray combat as glorious, but as it really is. In that respect, it is pretty much an anti-war movie.

 

[HoughMade]

War isn't glorious. But a just war can accomplish glorious ends, through horrible means.

 

[nipprdog]

*

 

[9mmfan]

I really liked the movie. I've read many books on WW2 Pacific battles and they were all very brutal. The Japanese fought like animals and treated us the same.

 

[TheBoss930]

Hell on earth.

 

[actaeon277]

 

[Creedmoor]

My son visited Hacksaw while in Okinawa.

 

[Creedmoor]

The black rock is from his platoon climbing My Fuji, volcanic rock. They walked up and ran down.
Gray rock is pumice that washes up on Okinawas beaches from a underwater volcano.
With his hand is a spider to the left.
More of Hacksaw Ridge.
Three grunts at Hacksaw, one is mine.

 

[Keith_Indy]

I thought it was a great movie, great message about faith and trusting God.

 

[actaeon277]

I thought it was a great movie, great message about faith and trusting God.

And that there is more than one form of bravery.

 

[Lmo1131]

Corpsman Desmond Doss



PRIVATE FIRST CLASS DESMOND T. DOSS
UNITED STATES ARMY

for service as set forth in the following

Citation: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, United States Army, Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division. Near Urasoe-Mura, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 29 April – 21 May 1945. He was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machinegun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Private First Class Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying them one by one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On 2 May, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and two days later he treated four men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave's mouth, where he dressed his comrades' wounds before making four separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On 5 May, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small-arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Private First Class Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On 21 May, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited five hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Private First Class Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions Private First Class Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty.

October 12, 1945
THE WHITE HOUSE[23]

 

[Hkindiana]

It WAS a great “feel good” movie. One thing I don’t understand from the movie, is how did we get that giant net up on the hillside, and why did the Japanese just not cut the net to keep us from assaulting?

 

[actaeon277]

It WAS a great “feel good” movie. One thing I don’t understand from the movie, is how did we get that giant net up on the hillside, and why did the Japanese just not cut the net to keep us from assaulting?

Cause anyone seen on the summit can be shot from other areas, or bombarded from arty and the ships.

So they sit back and make us come to them.

 

[actaeon277]

At least, that's my theory.

I could be wrong.


I often am.

 

[Creedmoor]

It WAS a great “feel good” movie. One thing I don’t understand from the movie, is how did we get that giant net up on the hillside, and why did the Japanese just not cut the net to keep us from assaulting?

I just talked to my son, he said the signs at Hacksaw said three Soldiers and Doss was one who volunteered to climb and pull the cargo net up for others to climb.
He also said if the Japanese got close to the cliffs edge, Army snipers shot them.

 

[Creedmoor]

At least, that's my theory.

I could be wrong.


I often am.

Breathing recycled air does that. Well maybe it was from hot racking.
Same thing right?

 

[actaeon277]

Breathing recycled air does that. Well maybe it was from hot racking.
Same thing right?

I was fortunate to be on a converted ex-boomer. So we actually had enough bunks for every crewmember, and a couple dozen Special Mission Personnel.

But yes, if you fart, it gets recycled for months.

 

[Creedmoor]

Heres a few more from my son visiting Hacksaw Ridge.

 

[Creedmoor]

Some from his platoon hiking up Mt Fuji.

 

[Creedmoor]

A few more.