Letters from Iwo Jima

Good reviews.

I found this engrossing, and it gave me a fairly constant thrill because I felt as if I were seeing the world through another person’s eyes, because the Japanese perspective combined with Clint Eastwood’s was so unusual in my experience. It was constantly visually interesting, in part because the inside the cave settings and night-time savings gave it the sense of being in black and white without it’s actually being so. I felt as if I was in the company of a movie like La Grande Illusion, in part because of the subject, in part because of that black and white quality, and in part because of the wise, complex humanity of the director/auteur.