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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Letters From Iwo Jima

I am late to the game on this, but I had a chance last week to finally watch Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima. Great, unique film. If you don't recall, this was the film he did as the companion to Flags of Our Fathers and it tells the story of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japanese soldiers. The character Saigo is one of the great war movie personas, deeply human.
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